David Harbour has opened up about returning to Stranger Issues in a brand new interview.
Talking to Folks, Harbour stated he was “thrilled” to start out engaged on Stranger Issues once more after the SAG strike ended on November 9.
Harbour, who performs Jim Hopper within the long-running Netflix present, says he shall be again filming on the present tomorrow (November 13).
“I imply, I don’t know if we’ll be taking pictures subsequent week, however yeah, as quickly as attainable,” he informed the outlet, saying that he heard from the programme’s present runners as quickly because the information concerning the strike ending was introduced.
“They actually known as me, I feel it was 10 minutes after the SAG factor on Twitter,” Harbour defined. “The primary AD [assistant director] is like, ‘So, get the flight for you on Monday, proper? We’ll be appearing in Atlanta.’”
“I’m thrilled with that. I’m able to work,” he continued. “I imply, there are different those that possibly aren’t, however I’m thrilled.”
Harbour went on to say how a lot he struggled in the course of the strike, equating it together with his time throughout lockdown. “I imply, you need to ask my spouse [Lily Allen], as a result of I’ve been sitting on the sofa depressed as hell. It’s been unhealthy,” Harbour defined.
“I imply, it’s like what occurred to me in the identical method in COVID the place you suppose to your self like, ‘Oh, now I form of have all this time,’ and then you definately simply examine your Google alerts each 5 minutes and are simply neurotically insecure. So, I did nothing.”
“I imply, I possibly learn half a e book, watched a bunch of TV, after which now, I’m tremendous excited to be again,” he added.
In September, Stranger Issues producer Shawn Levy additionally teased the cinematic ambitions of the present’s remaining season.
“There’s no approach to be contiguous with season 4, and never, frankly, develop scale and depth,” Levy stated to Whole Movie. “It’s main, main, cinematic storytelling that occurs to be known as a TV sequence. Stranger Issues 5 is as huge as any of the most important films that we see.”
Earlier this week, the opening scene from Stranger Issues season 5 was shared by the present’s writers.
After saying work had begun on the fifth and remaining season’s script in September, the Stranger Issues author’s room account on X posted an outline of the opening establishing shot from the script.
