David Harbour: ‘It is time’ for ‘Stranger Things’ to end
23.02.2023 - 01:05
/ nypost.com
“Stranger Things” almost in the hopper, star David Harbour is bidding adieu to Hawkins, Indiana, and looking beyond the Netflix series that brought him a new level of fame.“What’s funny is when I started the show, I never ever wanted it to end. That’s why I love the show,” Harbour, 47, said in a new interview with Discussing Film.“I think it’s a great show, even if I wasn’t in it.
Now we’re almost nine years from filming the first season, and I think it is time for it to end. But it is, of course, very bittersweet.
You know, there’s a sadness there,” the “Black Widow” star continued.Filming is slated to begin in May for “Stranger Things” Season 5 — the final chapter of the sci-fi series, which premiered in July 2016.Harbour plays police chief Jim Hopper alongside Winona Ryder, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Joe Keery and Dacre Montgomery.“It is time for us to leave that nest and try other things and different projects. And to let [creators] the Duffer brothers, try different things as well,” Harbour added.
“Those guys are so talented. I want to see what they come up with next.
So it is bittersweet, but it’s definitely time.”Matt and Ross Duffer appeared on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast in July, claiming a potential spinoff would be “1,000% different” than the parent series.And as for the fifth installment, the brothers explained the episodes will be fast-paced and the season will be shorter.“The only reason we don’t expect it to be as long is because if you look at it, it’s almost a two-hour ramp-up before our kids really get drawn into the supernatural mystery,” Matt Duffer said. “You get to know them, you get to see them
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