Sebastian Croft performs ‘reverse’ roles in Heartstopper and new movie How To Date Billy Walsh. (Netflix/Prime Video)
Sebastian Croft has voiced his pleasure at enjoying the whole “reverse” to his Heartstopper character Ben Hope in new teen movie How To Date BIlly Walsh.
Croft performs Archie, an eccentric and assured teen with a secret, in Prime Video’s teen rom-com How To Date Billy Walsh.
Archie is deeply in love with Amelia (Bridgerton’s Charithra Chandran) and is about to return clear when good-looking newcomer Invoice (Cobra Kai star Tanner Buchanan) rocks up and begins to woo her.
Pretending to be a love-life professional, Archie tries to forestall Amelia falling in love, however issues don’t go to plan.
The character is a far cry from his flip as Ben Hope, the disagreeable and borderline-abusive boyfriend of Charlie Spring in Heartstopper, and Croft, who gained’t be returning within the third season of Netflix’s adaptation of Alice Oseman’s graphic novels, has mirrored on the huge distinction between the 2 characters.
“It’s an actor’s dream to dive into one thing very totally different,” he tells PinkNews in an unique interview.
“Funnily sufficient, we wrapped on a Saturday, and on Monday I began filming Heartstopper season two, although it got here out earlier than. So, that was fairly a gear change.” It’s “so good” to play a personality who doesn’t have darkish undertones as Ben did, he added.
“[Archie] is quirky and bigger than life. I checked out a lot of issues, from Charlie Chaplin to Quentin Blake’s drawing in [Roald Dahl’s] Matilda, and the way they’re huge and expressive and exploring the physicality which was the other with Ben in Heartstopper.“
He provides: “Archie feels enjoyable and accessible. I used to be excited for folks to see a hotter character.”
Croft, who additionally performed a younger Ned Stark in Recreation of Thrones, needs that when he was youthful, he had been slightly extra like Archie.
“Though he hasn’t bought his love life sorted out, Archie has a powerful sense of who he’s from the start, and, virtually obnoxiously, doesn’t care what different folks assume.”
Now 22, the star provides: “After I was rising up, I want I had a bit extra of that. It was one thing I grew to understand and attempt for however at college, being your self and discovering out who you might be, is kind of onerous, so seeing Archie’s confidence is an efficient lesson.”
Whereas he may be centered on his present function, he’s additionally wanting forward – and would “100 per cent” play the lead in a queer rom-com.
“It’s thrilling to see so many cool tasks which have queer tales in the course of them. I’m positively enthusiastic about [it]. It’s good to leap between characters and a wide range of tales.”
How To Date Billy Walsh is streaming on Prime Video now.