Doctor Who star Yasmin Finney: ‘As a trans teenage girl, I never saw myself represented anywhere on TV’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Actually, I’m not allowed to say what.” Before she got the role in Heartstopper in 2021, she hadn’t even been to London – the table read was her first trip; now she’s booked and busy. “I think Heartstopper has struck a chord because of the simple fact that trans people didn’t have representation growing up,” Finney says. So to be able to relive my family experience, especially with these amazing actors – it was a pinch-me moment.” When you put yourself first, any other comment made by a relative or a family member or a friend, best friend, complete stranger off the streets – you really won’t care Yasmin Finney It’s hard to square this very positive, confident woman with the ire that’s been directed at her in the wake of “The Star Beast” on social media and by “review-bombing” on sites like Rotten Tomatoes. “When you put yourself first, any other comment made by a relative or a family member or a friend, best friend, complete stranger off the streets – you really won’t care.” She shrugs.