Joe Locke has addressed the rumour that his Heartstopper co-star Kit Connor could end up being his love interest in the Marvel Cinematic Universe – and we have our fingers crossed!
Tomorrow, the release date Agatha All Along, the studio’s latest TV series, finally arrives as it launches on Disney Plus.
A spin-off to the hugely popular WandaVision, the new series will see Joe make his entrance as a mysterious character called Teen, opposite Kathryn Hahn as the anti-hero Agatha, and fellow cast members including Aubrey Plaza, Patti LuPone, Sasheer Zamata.
Ahead of its premiere, Metro.co.uk had the chance to speak to Joe, 20, about his role, what it was like to work with such an incredible coven of powerhouse actresses and his hopes for his future in the franchise.
There’s been a lot of speculation about who Teen really is, with many fans suspecting that he’s actually a character named Wiccan.
In the Marvel comics, Wiccan is Billy Kaplan, a reincarnation of Billy Maximoff… who in WandaVision was introduced as one of Wanda and Vision’s twin sons.
If Joe does turn out to be playing Billy, aka Wiccan, this could mark an extremely exciting turning point in the MCU, ahead of the superhero team named
However, in true Marvel fashion, the actor has mastered the art of playing coy to avoid divulging any spoilers.
When asked how fans might react when they learn who Teen really is, he answered: ‘Well, I think – I hope – they’ll be excited, and it’ll be a cool, cool mystery to be solved.’
He then added playfully: ‘If I say less, then the less I’m likely to say anything I’m not allowed to say!’
Following the predictions that Joe is Wiccan, theories subsequently flew around the internet that Kit, 20 – who plays his boyfriend Nick in the beloved Netflix series Heartstopper – could be joining the MCU as his romantic interest Hulkling.
We therefore had to know if Joe was aware of these rumours and what he thought of the possibility.
‘I have not, and I hope he does not. No, I’m joking!’ the Agatha All Along star quipped.
‘I’d love it if Kit was in the MCU. I love working with him, but I’m pretty sure that’s just a baseless rumour.’
We’ll just have to wait and see!
Looking ahead to his future in the MCU, Joe expressed his hope that his character arc will continue, stating: ‘I obviously would love to, but that is not up to me. If it was up to me, I’d be in all of them. But yeah, it’s not my choice.’
Before we find out what lies in store for Teen, the Netflix star has ‘so many’ pearls of wisdom that he received from the amazing actresses who he worked with on Agatha All Along.
‘They’re all such incredible people, and they’ve done some incredible things in their career. I couldn’t specifically name things, but just the way that they hold themselves on the set, and the professionalism and their work ethics is definitely something that I’ve tried to take,’ he shared.
Agatha All Along premieres on Thursday September 19 on Disney Plus with new episodes released on Thursdays.
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