There’s one British actor Heartstopper star Kit Connor always ended up toe-to-toe with in audition rooms growing up.

As Louis Partridge, 22, prepares for the role of a lifetime as Mr Wickham in Netflix’s adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, he has reflected on his journey to get there.

And that includes just how small the world of child actors was growing up.

The Enola Holmes star recounted how his agemate Kit, 21, regularly cropped up at the same auditions as him when the pair were both trying to make it big in the industry.

‘For a long time, my acting nemesis was Kit Connor,’ he joked.

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Discussing the dynamic, he explained: ‘He was always in the room in auditions. It was always me and my mum and him and his mum. And my mum would roll her

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