Jonathan Bailey says everyone over 40 should watch Heartstopper

Actor Jonathan Bailey has said that “everyone over the age of 40 should be forced to watch” the queer YA show Heartstopper.

Speaking to Vanity Fair, Bailey said he “wedged himself into” the role of author and academic Jack Maddox in season three of Heartstopper.

“Heartstopper seems to allow people to feel catharsis and to feel a sort of melancholic sort of nostalgia for what could have been. I was feeling all of those things anyway,” he said.

Bailey had a mutual friend who was “really good friends” with Hearstopper‘s executive producer Patrick Walters, as “it is all a bit of a small world”, and that led to him getting the part.

He went on to say that he thinks the younger cast members in Heartstopper are “brilliant”.

“They’re so

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