David Harbour says he and the remainder of the Stranger Issues solid are on the brink of head again to set to movie the fifth and ultimate installment of the hit Netflix sequence.
Harbour, 48, talked with members of the media Thursday night on the BoxLunch Gala and shared that filming for the present — which was delayed by the 118-day SAG-AFTRA strike — is now simply “a couple of days” away.
The actor has portrayed the lovable and gruff Sheriff Jim Hopper on Stranger Factors since season 1 hit the streaming app in July 2016. Harbour’s character rapidly grew to become a fan favourite and the present helped to launch the actor into a brand new stage of stardom after an already profitable profession.
Speaking with Selection, Harbour stated that the solid and crew of the sci-fi drama sequence should get again to Hawkins, Indiana — the fictional metropolis the place the present is ready — as they’re already not on time.
“I mean, we got to film that last season of Stranger Things, don’t we? I got to be down there, like, in a couple of days. We got to get going — we’re late,” he stated.
Harbour later advised Folks that he acquired a name from producers about resuming manufacturing a mere 10 minutes after the strike ended.
“They literally called me, I think it was 10 minutes after the SAG thing on Twitter,” he stated. “The first AD [Assistant Director] is like, ‘So, get the flight for you on Monday, right? We’ll be acting in Atlanta.'”
The fourth season of Stranger Issues dropped on Netflix in two components in Might and July 2022 and the present’s creators, the Duffer Brothers, confirmed in August 2022 they have been within the early levels of writing the fifth season. A number of retailers reported that filming was set to happen over the summer time however was interrupted by the respective WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
Harbour, who took over the title of BoxLunch Giving Ambassador from fellow actor Simu Liu, ended the evening’s occasion by saying he would match BoxLunch’s $100,000 donation to Feeding America.
Speaking to the gang, Harbour joked that as Liu has left the place, the Shang-Chi star can now deal with his predominant job.
“Guess your job is no longer Giving Ambassador, you got to go back to beach. That’s Ken’s job, it’s beach,” Harbour joked, referencing Liu’s function in Barbie.
The Gran Turismo actor stated he determined to double the donation as a result of she could not be outdone by his predecessor.
“I did not want a very handsome young actor who was last year’s ambassador to outdo me in any way,” Harbour stated after the gala.
Except for his function on the Netflix sequence and his new philanthropic title, Harbour has a busy yr forward as after filming has wrapped on Stranger Issues, he should soar again into his function as Crimson Guardian inside the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
Harbour was speculated to shoot Marvel’s Thunderbolts movie over the summer time earlier than the SAG-AFTRA strike postponed manufacturing. On Thursday, Disney introduced that the film — which was initially set to hit theaters in 2024 — has been postponed to July 2025.
Thunderbolts is an Avengers-level team-up together with the universe’s anti-heroes and stars veteran MCU actors Sebastian Stan, Florence Pugh, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Olga Kurylenko and Wyatt Russell, and provides Marvel newcomers Steven Yeun, and Ayo Edebiri.
In February, Harbour talked with ET concerning the upcoming MCU venture and stated he was excited to reunite with Pugh — who starred alongside him in 2020’s Black Widow — in addition to the opposite new and returning MCU actors.
“I feel like there’s a lot of fun to be had,” Harbour added of the approaching team-up. “I’m really excited about it. I was wondering if I would be brought back, or how I would be brought back. And this really is beyond my expectations of cool.”
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