HEARTSTOPPER Star Kit Connor Sets The Record Straight On Those Rumors He's Being Eyed For MCU's Hulkling

Joe Locke's Heartstopper co-star Kit Connor has talked more about the rumours suggesting he'll play the MCU's Hulkling, revealing whether he was ever approached by Marvel Studios to discuss Teddy Altman.

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By JoshWilding - Apr 13, 2025 04:04 AM EST

Filed Under: Agatha: Coven of Chaos

When Heartstopper star Joe Locke made his MCU debut as "Teen" in Agatha All Along, fans of that show quickly pushed the idea that Kit Connor should play Hulkling (after deducing that "Teen" was really Billy Maximoff, of course).

Wiccan and Hulkling are romantically linked in the comics, and their relationship is one that's helped earn the two Young Avengers a legion of fans. Regarding Connor, speculation soon turned into rumours, and he's been linked to Hulkling ever since.

However, the Heartstopper fans among you may be disappointed to learn that Locke's longtime co-star and on-screen boyfriend in Heartstopper has never been contacted about playing the Kree/Skrull hybrid known as Hulkling.

"I think I maybe knew that name because I'd been asked about ot a couple times by friends. 'Hey, are you playing this role?' 'Not that I know of," Connor recalled in an interview with Josh Horowitz.

Asked whether the closest he'll come to playing a superhero is the time he donned Captain America's costume in an episode of Heartstopper, Connor said, "I think certainly for a while, yeah. Joe is doing that and I'm happy to watch from the sidelines for a little while at least."

Connor is a talent, so he'll no doubt find a major franchise role in the not-too-distant future (last fall, he stole the show in DreamWorks Animation's critically acclaimed The Wild Robot). Whether that will be a superhero remains to be seen, though he doesn't sound keen.

"I don't think I would be a good choice for Hulkling, to be honest," Connor admitted last year. "I think people would get tired of seeing me and Joe together eventually, if we kept doing this over the next few years."

At the time, Connor also talked about seeing Locke join such a huge franchise. "Joe is brilliant, and I think Agatha is the perfect excuse for people to see him without my ugly face," he joked. "You know, seeing him do his job, without being distracted by me saying 'Hi'. I think people will enjoy seeing Joe in all his glory, just like I want to do, without interfering."

The actor added, "I found out [Locke had been cast] when I was still recording the second season [of Heartstopper]. There's a joke about that in the second season too, and I think we ended up shooting it a day or two after I got the part. I'm really bad at keeping secrets, so everyone knew. It was really cool."

Marvel Studios may swap out Hulkling with Skaar, though the characters are very different, and that would do Hulkling a disservice. As of now, we don't know when or where Wiccan's story will continue or which project might allow him to meet his alien boyfriend.

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26 Comments

ObserverIO - 4/13/2025, 5:08 AM

Hard reboot the MCU after Secret Wars.

If they want to keep this Young Avengers shit around and do more seasons of all the Disney+ crap then just create a legacy universe for Brad Winderbaum to play around with, where everything from Phases 1-5 is still canon and everybody's dead, old, retired and have been replaced by lesser diluted characters.

But take the big screen MCU back to basics. Younger actors playing Steve Rogers, Thor, Tony Stark, Hank and Janet Pym, the FF, X-Men, etc. Big screen gains.

Urubrodi - 4/13/2025, 7:14 AM

@ObserverIO - Find it funny how you say it like you will it into existence. Everyone and their mother know they will not do a hard reboot. Closest you are gonna get is that a new universe is gonna be formed by the end of Secret Wars, but they won't just erase what came before. Just not gonna happen.

ObserverIO - 4/13/2025, 7:20 AM

@Urubrodi - I find it funny how you say that everyone and their mother knows exactly what they're gonna do when you know as much I as I do which is exactly squat.

Urubrodi - 4/13/2025, 7:24 AM

@ObserverIO - What indication is there that Marvel is planning to just erase everything and start again? None. Why would they do this in the first place when they can get the same effect by creating a new universe with incursions in the end of Secret Wars? They won't just throw out all the actors they have right now and start again from scratch. Their situation is not that desparate as the DCEU was a few years ago. If the Avengers movies and Spider-Man 4 don't make bank then yeah they might rethink everything but now? There's just no way.

ObserverIO - 4/13/2025, 7:35 AM

@Urubrodi - There's no indication that they will and there's no indication that they won't. Neither one of us knows.

What your saying is that you don't want them to hard reboot, because you're married to the current continuity. This is understandable. DC fans were saying the same with the DCEU for years. Then after 10 flops in a row DC stopped listening to them.
How many flops does Marvel need to have before they stop listening to you?

Also, if Marvel keep the old continuity going on Disney+ for the dwindling, aging niche fanbase like you, in which Phases 1-5 are continued as an alternate universe would you not be sated with that at all? If your problem is that you are too attached to the current version of the universe, then wouldn't that appease you?

Urubrodi - 4/13/2025, 8:06 AM

@ObserverIO – "There's no indication that they will, and there's no indication that they won't?" So let’s just throw away almost 20 years of world-building, 35 movies, several shows, and animated projects because of a few missteps?

The DCEU was bomb after bomb. That’s clearly not the case here. Has the MCU had some weak movies and shows in the past few years? Sure. But it’s also had a lot of quality content. We’re literally getting a pretty solid show right now, and Deadpool & Wolverine last year was awesome. Thunderbolts and Fantastic Four are looking promising.

If Secret Wars ends with a merging of universes, Marvel would have total control over what to keep and what to drop. There’s no need to throw everything away and start from scratch when the situation is completely salvageable.

Urubrodi - 4/13/2025, 8:09 AM

@ObserverIO - What’s more likely, that Marvel follows DC with a full reboot, or that they do a soft reset that lets them fix things while keeping the best parts? You don’t need a crystal ball to see which one makes more sense. Sure, nothing is guaranteed, but the probability of a soft reboot is way higher.

And to the point about continuing Phases 1–5 in an alternate universe “for the aging niche fanbase”, I just want the main story to flow naturally. Not get abruptly cut off because Marvel panicked. The situation isn’t that bad. Like yeah, Young Avengers probably isn’t a great idea. So don’t do it. It’s really that simple. Do you honestly think anyone will care that the post-credit scene from The Marvels, a movie hardly anyone saw, didn’t lead to anything?

ObserverIO - 4/13/2025, 8:50 AM

@Urubrodi - "So let’s just throw away almost 20 years of world-building, 35 movies, several shows..." I think you just answered your own question. That's a lot of material to get caught up on. When they reboot (soft or hard) none of the teenagers on planet Earth will have even been born when Iron Man came out.

Urubrodi - 4/13/2025, 9:04 AM

@ObserverIO - No, no I didn't XD A lot of the movies and franchises I like were created during the 70s/80s, I wasn't born then. There are these things called streaming services, blu ray discs, DVDs... It's not that complicated to watch things nowadays and catch up. The whole point of a cinematic universe is that's an ever expanding platform. It loses its value if you keep rebooting it every decade because some new babies were born. Imo one of the best aspects of it is the fact that you have a lot content to available to watch. Plus, If you are watching let's say Daredevil: Born Again, there is no need to also watch Guardians of the Galaxy. So this narrative that you need to be up to date with everything otherwise you'll be lost is bs.

ObserverIO - 4/13/2025, 11:27 AM

@Urubrodi - It's not bs at all in fact it's vitally important.

The franchises you're talking about probably don't have anywhere near what the MCU has in terms of content, with the exception of things such as Star Trek that are a collection of mostly self-contained series all taking place within an easy to understand singular science fiction concept. And you'll notice that Star Trek became more and more niche as time went on. The GA no longer watch it, only trekkers.

ObserverIO - 4/13/2025, 11:29 AM

The MCU can certainly survive this way on TV, but in the movies? Forget about it.

Urubrodi - 4/13/2025, 11:33 AM

@ObserverIO - Let me repeat myself, you don’t need to be aware of everything that is happening or has happened in all parts of the MCU in order to enjoy it, one of the key ideas of a cinematic universe is to have content for everyone to like. If you’re gonna keep resetting the universe after a set number of years, then might as well do separate standalone franchises like Nolan’s Batman. The main thing about the MCU is the connectivity. Star Wars for example if you count all media is way larger than the current MCU, but you’d be fine just sticking to the main saga. If someone love Spider-Man they will be fine just watching the movies he shows up for example.

McMurdo - 4/13/2025, 12:56 PM

@Urubrodi - it's hard to argue a reset with the og Avengers in tandem with all the xmen in one universe isn't appealing though I must admit

McMurdo - 4/13/2025, 12:58 PM

@ObserverIO - i respect that you labeled Star Trek fans Trekkers and not Trekkies

ObserverIO - 4/13/2025, 1:44 PM

@Urubrodi - Star Wars is just 11 films (and 1 animated movie) and a handful of TV series. It's also much easier to follow if you just watch the saga movies. That's 9 movies. The rest are optional and yet add to the experience.

Marvel is not like that at all. To go with your example, if you're just watching Spider-Man, well in the first movie Iron Man shows up. Who's he? Well you gotta go back and watch Iron Man. But then hpow does he know Spider-Man and wtf was happening at the beginning with all those weird, colorfully-garbed, extraordinariliy powered people at the beginning. Well, see that was Civil War, so you gotta go watch Civil War, but you won't understand who all those superheroes are so then you have to go watch all their origin movies and the Avengers and Avengers 2 to see the introduction of Scarlet Witch, oh and you really need to watch Cap 1 and 2 because of the Bucky stuff...

So right from the beginning you're lost and have to watch like 15 movies just to understand the first one.

So bad example? No. No it was decent enough example, it's just that all the Marvel films are pretty much like that. The only films that can be watched without ever having watched anything else (that I can think of) are the 2 Black Panther movies and the at least the first 2 GOTG movies, if not all three.

But it's not GOTG or Black Panther that we're talking about here. It's the MCU. And to be into the MCU you need to watch a lot. Like A LOT.

THEKENDOMAN - 4/13/2025, 5:13 AM

And here we go.

Equal rights incoming.

This will be very interesting especially how Marvel will approach this.

Accepted or not, this is very deep waters, even for a super hero movie.

But its in the comics so [frick] it.

For [frick]s Sakes

KennKathleen - 4/13/2025, 7:40 AM

@THEKENDOMAN - SINCE it's in the comics, they should continue the time honored tradition of butchering the source material. Make it a classic hetero nuclear family, and let's see how many "inclusionists" accept the changes that are geared towards "traditional audience's". I'd be impressed.... but they wouldn't. They won't.

THEKENDOMAN - 4/13/2025, 11:23 AM

@KennKathleen - I feel your pain 😂

TheVisionary25 - 4/13/2025, 9:59 AM

He’s set the record straight about not being Hulkling before too but no one’s believed him lol….

Honestly , I think it’s just fan casting/speculation just because both him & Joe Locke are in Heartstopper and love interests who have chemistry people like.

If not Hulkling , I think he could be a good Iceman.

Yellow - 4/13/2025, 11:29 AM

Shame that he looked like the perfect cast, but I get that it could be weird to see the same couple over and over.

I wasn't sold on Joe as Wiccan at first but he totally nailed it.

TheJester187 - 4/13/2025, 11:35 AM

What kind of homo shit they promoting comics now? Smh.

twistedcastles - 4/13/2025, 1:34 PM

@TheJester187 - young Avengers started 2005 so now is wild lol, that's 20 years ago

BlackStar25 - 4/13/2025, 9:03 PM

@twistedcastles - Dude basically told us he really doesnt read comics for real...lol

DocSpock - 4/13/2025, 12:01 PM

More trash for the 5%.

MakeAmericaGrea - 4/13/2025, 3:44 PM

More movies and shows to boycott.

Superheromoviefan - 4/13/2025, 4:07 PM

@MakeAmericaGrea -
your tears are amazing

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HEARTSTOPPER Star Kit Connor Sets The Record Straight On Those Rumors He's Being Eyed For MCU's Hulkling

Joe Locke's Heartstopper co-star Kit Connor has talked more about the rumours suggesting he'll play the MCU's Hulkling, revealing whether he was ever approached by Marvel Studios to discuss Teddy Altman.

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