Olivia Colman will not be in the cast of season 3 of Heartstopper

Kit Connor will have to do without his small screen mom.

While the promotion of Scandalously Yours coming to an end, Olivia Colman made an announcement yesterday which saddened the many fans of the series Heartstopper. Little LGBT+ nugget from Netflix, the series created by Alice Oseman and adapted from his own graphic novel, looks at Nick's first romantic emotions (Kit Connor) and Charlie (Joe Locke), a couple of boys.

While she still played Elizabeth II in The Crownthe Oscar-winning actress for another royal role in The Favorite had joined the cast ofHeartstopper to play Nick's mother, Sarah Nelson. His popularity among fans of the series comes from a scene where his character learns of his son's bisexuality, which melted the hearts of spectators. In real life, she had also defended Kit Connor, forced to come clean coming out by growing media pressure.

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So, when the actress announced to a journalist that Forbes that she will not be able to reprise the role of Sarah Nelson for the third season scheduled for October 2024, it is heartbroken:

“I couldn't do Heartstopper 3. I couldn't fit it into my schedule. I blame myself terribly. I feel like I’ve been a part of one of the greatest things of my career.”​​

She is not the only one to regret this absence. Since her statement, reactions from fans have multiplied on social networks, most thanking the actress for her performance in the series.

If Olivia Colman could not find the time to appear in the casting of the next part of Heartstopper, is that it has not stopped in recent years. After the Marvel series Secret Invasion released last year, the actress gave the answer to Timothée Chalamet In Wonkaand to Ebon Moss-Bachrach in an episode of The Bear.

She will soon be showing in Wickerdrama of Alex Huston Fischer And Eleanor Wilson in which she and Dev Patel plays a couple who cause a scandal in a small conservative town. In 2025, it is expected in Paddington in Peruthird addition to Pooh's Adventures.

For the moment, she is showing in Scandalously Yours of Thea Sharrockcurrently in cinemas, and in which she plays Edith Swan, victim of a crow in a small Irish town in the 1920s.

Season 3 of Heartstopper will be released next October on Netflix. If a fourth part is planned, fans hope that Olivia Colman will be able to reprise her role.

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