Heartstopper Interview: Director Euros Lyn On Bringing Alice Oseman’s Queer Story To Life
“One of the most amazing things about Heartstopper is how excited people are, to the point where they want to go out and stand on the rooftops to cheer about the show,” director Euros Lyn tells me after its debut.
Since arriving on Netflix in late April, this adorably wholesome adaptation of Alice Oseman’s webcomic has taken the world by storm, attracting audiences young and old to a story of queer love all about acceptance and rejoicing in the truth of who you are. It’s almost been two weeks and I’m still unable to scroll through my social media feed without seeing compilations of the show’s cutest moments or excerpts from the graphic novels all designed to worship this story and these characters. It struck a nerve in the most wonderful way.
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“It’s so exciting to see the show having an emotional impact on people,” Lyn says. “Countless stories of people feeling empowered to come out to their parents as a consequence of having seen the show, or older generations of queer people watching the show and feeling slightly overwhelmed by the emotion of what might have been their memories, or what could have been, or what they once had. It’s also getting an amazingly positive response from a wider audience saying that there’s something about this show and its chronicle of falling in love, and the purity and overwhelming loveliness of falling in love for the first time. I’m utterly over the moon.”
Lyn’s career is an extensive one, having directed portions of Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant’s tenures as Doctor Who while also working on its adult spin-off Torchwood alongside Russell T. Davies. He’s dabbled in Daredevil, Broadchurch, Sherlock, Black Mirror,
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