Joe Locke realised that he might be onto something special with Heartstopper on a recent trip to America.
“A man came up to us — he was 56, I think — and he’d come out the year before because he’d watched Heartstopper”. Now, the stranger “has a boyfriend and is the happiest he’d ever been,” he says. “Reactions like that make you realise this is a show that really matters to people.”
