{"id":131873,"date":"2024-10-29T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=131873"},"modified":"2024-10-29T12:10:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T19:10:58","slug":"is-heartstoppers-joe-locke-not-good-looking-enough-to-star-in-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/is-heartstoppers-joe-locke-not-good-looking-enough-to-star-in-the-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Heartstopper&#8217;s Joe Locke not good-looking enough to star in the series?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Heartstopper star Joe Locke has recently been caught in the crossfire of X&#8217;s (formerly Twitter) crazy &#8220;hot or not&#8221; debate.<\/strong> The tweetstorm began with a comparison that tried to put Joe Locke up against a classic TV heartthrob of the past, <strong>Tom Welling<\/strong>. According to one user &#8220;shows used to have attractive men,\u201d but today&#8217;s leading men in romance series, like Joe, are \u201ca mess.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aedlein\/status\/1850362111949472182?s=48\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He&#39;s not ugly. Y&#39;all are just cruel and for what? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jIGePmvBE8\">https:\/\/t.co\/jIGePmvBE8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pikachu with no make up (@aedlein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aedlein\/status\/1850362111949472182?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t worry, Joe stans were quick to clap back, reminding everyone that taste is subjective and beauty standards are excessive. One fiery response even questioned the original tweet, saying &#8220;He\u2019s not ugly. Y\u2019all are just cruel and for what&#8221;\u00a0 Meanwhile, other Heartstopper fans pointed out that the show wants to represent different types of <strong>beauty and diversity<\/strong>, not following hegemonic TV models and actors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/borntodieblvd\/status\/1850319114138464405\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/borntodieblvd\/status\/1850319114138464405<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Others highlighted that &#8220;Heartstopper&#8221; is all about love and acceptance, inviting these haters and body shamers to take a page out of Heartstopper&#8217;s graphic novel and spread a little more love instead of mean critiques. Meanwhile, Joe Locke continues slaying his acting career, with both a starring role in Heartstopper and as William Kaplan\/Billy Maximoff in &#8220;<strong>Agatha All Along<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heartstopper star Joe Locke has recently been caught in the crossfire of X&#8217;s (formerly Twitter) crazy &#8220;hot or not&#8221; debate. The tweetstorm began with a comparison that tried to put Joe Locke up against a classic TV heartthrob of the past, Tom Welling. According to one user &#8220;shows used to have attractive men,\u201d but today&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":131874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386,2264],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-131873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"category-entertainment"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131873"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=131873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}