'Stranger Things 4' Star Joseph Quinn on Eddie's Heroic Journey and Epic Guitar Solo (Exclusive)
05.07.2022 - 18:51
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season 4 finale.Like the first three seasons of the Netflix series, introduced a new character that stole the hearts of fans. This time, it didn’t take long for audiences to fall in love with Eddie, an older high school student who finds himself the suspect in Hawkins’ mysterious murder cases.
And like Barb (Shannon Purser), Bob (Sean Astin) and Alexei (Alec Utgoff) before him, fans were devastated when Eddie, played by Joseph Quinn, was killed off before the end of the latest epic season. Of the intense fandom and reactions to his character, Quinn tells ET's Will Marfuggi, “It’s a completely overwhelming feeling… It’s so lovely, like, the devotion that fans have for this show and how they’ve found space in their heart for a new character… It’s just so heartwarming.” Prior to the Duffer Brothers series, the 29 year-old British actor previously appeared on HBO’s and. While he’s been on big shows before, Quinn previously described the experience of joining as “daunting.” Though, something that he was completely “grateful” for. “It’s incredibly gratifying,” Quinn says now, reflecting on the massive season that was filmed and produced during the pandemic.
“This season, the scale of it is enormous. And then the ambition is kind of ridiculous.
So, there was no way that it couldn’t be this kind of mammoth process. And, you know, everyone worked so hard on it.” “But the fact we put it out there and it’s been so well received and, obviously, personally, like, for the character that I played, for people to be so welcoming, it feels like a big exhale,” he continues. First introduced as the leader of the school’s Dungeons and Dragons club and a heavy metal fan, it’s not surprising that the more popular kids stereotype him as a
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