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Joe Locke on ‘Heartstopper’ Embracing Sex, Being a Queer Marvel Star in ‘Agatha’ and Why ‘There Are Days I Never Want to Play a Gay Character Again’
Joe Locke will star in Marvel's “Agatha All Along” (premiering Sept. 18) and Season 3 of “Heartstopper” (debuting on Oct. 3).
The show’s fans had been flooding TikTok and Instagram — and, of course, Locke’s mentions — with all manner of swoony tributes, so he wasn’t all that shocked when, just minutes after he arrived at his seat, a stream of Swifties began handing him friendship bracelets. But based on one element about Teen that has been confirmed by Marvel — that he’s gay — fans have alreadybeenrabidlytheorizing that Locke is playing Wiccan, the out grown-up son of Wanda Maximoff who was first introduced as a child in 2021’s “WandaVision” alongside Hahn’s Agatha Harkness. An enduring criticism of “Heartstopper” has been that its audaciously wholesome approach to LGBTQ teen romance — especially with the central couple, Charlie Spring (Locke) and Nick Nelson (Kit Connor) — isn’t terribly realistic.
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