Heartstopper Season 3 Will Have a Trans Sex Scene, Yasmin Finney Says

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We’re just a few weeks out from a new, reportedly more grown-up era of Heartstopper. Cast member Yasmin Finney has revealed that season three of the beloved Netflix show will feature sex scenes that will hopefully “educate a lot of the audience.”

In the most recent episode of Heartstopper: The Official Podcast, released on Monday, the actor opened up about the process of filming some of the series’ more intimate scenes. Speaking to host Tia Kofi, winner of the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race: U.K. vs. the World, Finney said, “I’m just going to start by saying there’s a lot of adulthood that starts to blossom this season.” That includes her character, Elle Argent, having sex with her boyfriend, Tao Xu.

Finney added that it was nice to have a “PG-friendly” depiction of a trans teen engaging in intimacy. “You see the complications of being trans, and you see it’s not just easy to have those relationships and go deep into a sexual relationship with your partner straight away, especially when you’ve got gender dysphoria and all these complicated things that come with being trans,” she said.

In the new season three trailer which dropped this morning on Netflix’s YouTube channel, we see Tao and Elle making out before the latter pulls away. “When you put your hand there, all my dysphoria just hit me,” she explains in a later scene.

The scenes will undoubtedly be deeply felt by viewers, especially since Finney herself said that filming them was “emotional.” That was a new experience for the actor, as she told Kofi that she had “never really gotten emotional before on set.”

“I just had to have a moment to myself,” Finney said. “As I’m more into this industry, I’m starting to be a bit more of a method actor, and sadly for me, it’s really easy to relate to being alienated.

The actress closed her podcast interview by saying that the sex scenes were “a lot” and “very overwhelming to think of.”

“It’s just really difficult – hopefully you’ll see that in my performance,” she said.

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