Heartstopper’s Kit Connor & Joe Locke Take on a Painting Challenge

[elegant lively music]

We're gonna paint, and I'm gonna paint things.

I'm gonna beat you. And I'm gonna beat him.

Better than Joe. [Joe grunting]

Hi, British Vogue, I'm Joe Locke.

And I'm Kit Connor.

[Both] And this is the painting challenge.

I cannot paint for life of me.

I'm not very good.

I used to get told off at school,

'cause I would accidentally paint vaginas.

Okay, nice.

The first thing we have to paint

is our favorite animal [tone chiming]

and we have a time limit.

Well done. Thanks, babe.

Gimme that,

gimme that orange. Oh.

Yes. I don't what to paint.

This is a very stiff, very stiff paintbrush.

As creative people we should be really good.

[Kit] We are very creative people,

absolutely. I don't know

what this animal looks like.

Are you done with that yellow?

Nope, yeah, come get it. Come get it?

There's yellow. [paints clattering]

You little. This is stressful.

This is so so awful.

Do I have any other creative hobbies outside of acting?

I actually have from time to time

written a little bit of poetry.

Could you recite some poetry for us?

No, sorry, I'm just really getting into this.

I like baking, I can make a mean Victoria sponge.

You can actually, I've tasted it several times.

I think this is it. [buzzer blasts]

[laughing] I feel less bad about mine now.

Oh brilliant, thank you.

Yours isn't great.

Neither is yours though. Okay.

[wind whipping] I'm taking this one,

sorry. I think yeah.

[chime ringing] You can take it.

We'll take that as a practice round.

[wind whipping] Do you want a present?

You can put it up in your house.

I really would not want to do that, actually.

What can we expect [lively organ music]

from Season 3 of Heartstopper?

I think from Season 3 of Heartstopper,

we can expect more sadness and more horniness.

More sadness and horniness. Which I think is what

people want from a TV show.

This one is also timed,

and we are going to paint

[chime ringing] our favorite dessert.

[clock ticking]

What's my favorite? Man, these paint brushes

are dirty.

This isn't a good look, actually.

What was your first impression of me, Kit?

My first impression of you, Joe,

you have very interesting shaped thumbs.

But, yeah, that was probably my first impression.

But also that you were very good at acting

and nice to be around, et cetera.

My first impression of Kit was,

shit, this kid's really good,

and I don't know what I'm doing.

And that he was smaller than I thought he would be.

Brilliant.

But then he grew up really quickly,

even in between getting the part

and starting shooting the show.

You were actually bigger than I expected you to be.

Really? Yeah.

I'll take that. [clock ticking]

I don't really know how anyone's gonna top this.

[buzzer ringing]

What have you painted?

I think. What do you think?

Looking at your palette, it's brown.

Some kind of cake. Yeah, I think

you have painted, it looks like an ice cream sandwich

or something.

From the shadow, I can see.

Brilliant. Is that what it is?

No. Okay, great then.

Bourbon Biscuit. Yes.

I think yours is great.

We definitely both improved.

Yeah, it's a bit abstract.

It's abstract. Yeah.

It's like a blurry picture, but it's pretty,

it's photorealistic if you're using a blurry camera.

I think you've got it again, babe.

[wind shipping] Thank you.

God, this game's easy. [chime ringing]

Next thing we have to paint is

[tone ringing] our own star sign.

[clock ticking] [classical elegant music]

I always think that star signs are a load of crap,

until I read my own and then I'm like,

oh yeah, that's so me.

[paint splattering] [Kit gasping]

It's hard to make this any better than it is,

it's really amazing.

I'm just kind of

throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks.

[paint splattering]

Whoa, I almost hit you there.

[paint splattering]

Jesus Christ!

[clock ticking] How do you spell it?

[buzzer blasting]

Liberating.

Libra-ating.

Okay.

[laughing] Fucking hell!

What's so funny?

[laughing] Nothing, it looks great.

I'll let you take this one, I think.

[wind whooshing] Yeah, I think

I'm gonna take this one. Yeah.

[chime ringing] I have,

I love drawing vaginas. [wind whooshing]

Wait what? Oh!

It's love hearts, they're not.

I think it's all about the scale.

Oh yeah, it's like the ovaries.

The Fallopian tubes.

I know a lot about the female anatomy, I'm just not very

well versed in it.

Wonderful. Anyway.

Right, the next thing that we're painting

is a fashion item [tone chiming]

that the other person wears all the time.

You have a few staples [clock ticking]

that you wear that I could have chosen.

Yeah, I wear a lot of the same clothes a lot of the time.

What's the best fashion show you've seen, Kit?

It was a Llueve show.

Best fashion show I've seen was an AMI show.

They always have such nice cuts,

and it always fits me really well, which is great.

Yeah, that's what you think.

This this is gonna be great, no!

[clock ticking] This is gonna be

really hard to see.

[buzzer blasting]

I had a good vision,

and unfortunately the red is just going into the black.

I think I smashed this one.

Let's see yours.

It's not bad.

Oh it's my Marvel cap Yeah.

Okay that's good.

I personally think it's more of a draw.

Joe's told me [wind whooshing]

that I have to give him this one.

I have. [chime ringing]

I've rigged it.

[wind whooshing]

Just to make it a little bit more fair.

So I'm gonna do that, I'm gonna be the bigger man,

and we're gonna do it.

Well that makes it more interesting.

We've got to decide . Exactly.

I like a challenge.

Thank you. I like a challenge.

For our final challenge,

we have to paint [tone chiming]

a portrait of each other.

Clean glasses. [clock ticking]

Everything's just covered in paint now.

Again, strange, strange look.

[upbeat music] [Joe laughing]

I know what you're gonna do and it's not funny.

I can't tell if I'm, I feel like I've drawn Donald Trump.

Oh, brilliant.

Thank you.

Okay, I feel much less bad about what I'm drawing now

after that comment.

This is Joe Locke if he were in like American Psycho

I mean this is great.

[Joe] I'm gonna do a little chest hairs.

Kit's really hairy, so.

[clock ticking]

[buzzer blasting]

Perfection.

Oh wow.

See that is fuckin' Ed Sheeran.

I felt really bad. There's wrong with that.

Except with muscles.

That is like you in a Beano comic.

Why did you give me ginger chest hair?

I don't know what color your chest hair is.

Right, okay.

You won. [wind whooshing]

Thank you. [chime ringing]

[hands clapping]

I think we're taking this. Yeah.

Mate, that is fucking great.

I'm sorry, I'm so chuffed at that.

I'm telling my mom.

I'm really glad you're chuffed.

Thanks for watching.

I'm Joe Locke.

And I'm Kit Connor.

[Both] And that was The Painting Challenge.

[bright classical music]