Growing up Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten MatarazzoThe rest of the Stranger ThingsSince 2016, the cast has seen incredible growth since the beginning of the show.
The once relatively unknown actors burst into the Hollywood industry full speed ahead after the drama’s massive success. “I don’t think Netflix thought it was going to be as huge as it became, but neither did we,” cocreator Matt DufferTelled Entertainment WeeklySeptember 2017.
In fact, Stranger ThingsFans push those behind the scenes of each new product to excel. “It’s definitely daunting,” director Shawn Levy said. “The love for this show is so rabid.”
Duffer added: “We want people to argue about what season is better. I want the discussion. I want the Toy Story debate!”
Part of surprising viewers is keeping plot details securely under wraps — even when it comes to the cast. “I don’t know much about it because we get the scripts as we go along,” Finn WolfhardTelled Us Weekly of season 3 in August 2018. “It’s set in 1985, in the summer. It’s the summer of love — that’s all I can say, really.”
Matarazzo also left his teases vague. “I’m really excited about the special effects this season, and the scripts are the best we’ve had,” the actor hinted in Us’ summer TV preview.
Shannon Purser, meanwhile, called the series “the perfect show” in an August 2018 interview with Us — despite the fact that her character, Barb Holland, met an untimely end in season 1.
Stranger Things premiered on Netflix in July 2016. The first season featured Brown (Eleven), Matarazzo, (Dustin Henderson), Wolfhard(Mike Wheeler), Winona Ryder (Joyce Byers), David Harbour (Jim Hopper), Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas Sinclair), Noah Schnapp (Will Byers), Joe Keery (Steve Harrington), Natalia Dyer (Nancy Wheeler), Charlie Heaton(Jonathan Byers). Cara Buono (Karen Wheeler).
Season 2 was launched in October 2017, while season 3 was released in July 2019. The coronavirus pandemic caused Season 4 to be pushed back to 2022.
Levy explained that fans can expect a season unlike any other as filming began to wrap up in 2021.
“What [fans] can expect is a season that is wildly more epic than the first three,” Levy told Entertainment TonightAugust 2021. “The reason it has taken a minute is, yes, COVID [19] — COVID protocols that keep us safe but have slowed us down — but also, it is by far the most ambitious, epic, globe-spanning plot we have ever done.”
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