'Heartstopper' Season 3 Reveals Casting for New Character Michael Holden

We have a casting update on the upcoming third season of Heartstopper!

The hit Netflix series will in fact be returning for another season, as it was picked up for two more seasons following the success of the first.

Production kicked off on the new season at the beginning of October and while there hasn’t been many updates, we did just find out this week that a new character, Michael Holden, is being added and the actor cast in the role has been revealed!

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Heartstopper creator Alice Oseman (pictured here) took to Instagram this week to reveal that Darragh Hand has been cast as Michael.

“Now some of you already figured this out 👀, but for those who didn’t, we’re thrilled to be welcoming Darragh Hand as Michael Holden to the Heartstopper family for S3!” they captioned their post. See the pics below!

“As well as appearing in the Heartstopper graphic novels, Michael – along with Tori – is one of the main characters of my first ever novel, ‘Solitaire’. So I was very nervous and excited to begin the search for our Michael! Michael is a quirky, eccentric optimist with a sunshine disposition, and it was a challenge to find someone who I felt truly channelled Michael from the books. But then Darragh came along and warmed our hearts, made us all laugh so much, and perfectly complimented Jenny Walser’s Tori Spring. I can’t wait for you to meet Michael in season 3!”

In case you missed it, find out the title of the first episode of season three…

Alice has previously talked about deviating from the original comics for the Netflix series.