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DECEMBER 2022 ISSUE
Yasmin Finney’s Casting In Doctor Who? “It Will Change The World”
Yasmin Finney has arrived – and our screens aren’t likely to be the same again. Amel Mukhtar meets the teen queen of Heartstopper as she verges on superstardom.
“You know how some babies learn to swim as soon as their parents throw them in the water?” asks Yasmin Finney. She is bouncing high into the air on a blow-up fortress at Manchester’s Inflata Nation park, her long slim limbs flying across rubber walls. In the height of the summer’s heatwave, sweat beads on my forehead as I try to keep up, but Finney ebulliently glows, all childlike delight, as she adds that, when it comes to trampolining, tackling large inflatable obstacles, in fact anything active and adrenaline-pumping, “I was that baby, honey.”
This giant palace of brightly coloured rubber might seem an unlikely place to meet one of Britain’s most exciting new actors. Around us, parents chase toddlers and school kids suck on Chupa Chups. But Finney has brought me here to show me one of the places she felt happiest when she was growing up. “This place was my own world of escapism,” she says, her accent giving away her local roots. “I would just roam free.”
Today, she still looks totally at home. It is only a couple of years since she stopped being a regular, though. Aged 19, in April Finney appeared in her first ever acting role – as charming and sharp-witted trans teenager Elle Argent in Netflix’s life-affirming hit Heartstopper, a story of queer high-school love adapted from Alice Oseman’s comic of the same name.
An immediate phenomena, it ignited the kind of stan obsession only boyband dreamboats typically arouse. Almost overnight, the four main cast members became stars with an online army of fans that proudly wear trademark autumn leaf emojis on their profiles like crests. Finney’s social media following is in the multimillions. And her next gig – that of Rose, the companion to The Doctor (to be played by Ncuti Gatwa, best known for his gloriously charismatic performance as gay student Eric in Netflix’s Sex Education) – is only going to heighten the hype around her.
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