‘Stranger Things’ Star David Harbour on Joyce and Hopper’s Future: ‘They Have a Very Complex Love for Each Other’
28.05.2022 - 02:27
/ variety.com
Emily Longeretta SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched Season 4 of “Stranger Things,” now streaming on Netflix.For those who got used to seeing David Harbour as Jim Hopper, a lazy police officer in Hawkins, Indiana, the new episodes of “Stranger Things” may catch you off guard — and that was his point. After three seasons of playing “fat dad Hopper,” Harbour was ready for something different.The actor was excited to dive into the darker side of the character and how he was feeling about the trauma in his past. During Season 4’s fifth episode, he has a long monologue with the guard-turned-prisoner who tried to help him out and got caught.
In the speech, during which Hopper details the pain of losing his daughter, he also says that he views himself as a “curse” and feels responsible for everything bad that has happened to El (Millie Bobby Brown) and Joyce (Winona Ryder). “Everyone I love, I hurt,” he says through tears. As it turns out, Harbour had been sitting with that monologue for years and was eager to dive into Hopper’s backstory.“I really liked the film noir idea of — it’s sort of in ‘Memento,’ where a man is chasing himself.
We have this idea with Hopper: He’s a cop, so he sees things pretty much good guys, bad guys, pretty black and white. There’s a situation with cancer where his daughter dies. It’s cancer.
What can you do, right? Who can you who can you lock up when a tragedy like this happen? Then what he really starts to do is go back, and the real bad guy is himself,” Harbour tells Variety. “I really liked the idea with him that there’s an actual poison in him. He is the poison, and feels that anyone who gets near him is infected with this thing.
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