I knew he wouldn’t have asked if I was sitting down if I hadn’t got it.
“He goes, ‘Are you sat down?’ And I just screamed. “I had a phone call from my agent,” Locke tells me. When the lead star of Netflix’s fizzing new hit drama, Heartstopper, discovered he had been selected out of 10,000 teenagers to play schoolboy Charlie Spring, he let out a high-pitched yelp.