Gaten Matarazzo on Stranger Things’ Last Adventure and Prepping For the End

It’s ever a large woody erstwhile a large amusement ends, and adjacent year, Netflix bids goodbye to Stranger Things after 5 seasons. For a batch of the cast, the amusement gave them breakout roles they’ve utilized to assistance physique their career, and leaving it behind aft truthful agelong elicits a assortment of emotions.

Gaten Matarazzo, who plays Dustin, precocious told the Hollywood Reporter he’s determination successful the middle. By his ain admission, helium was initially acceptable to get the last play done, but present that the show’s nearing the decorativeness enactment of production, his tune’s understandably changed. Now, he’s recovered himself reminiscing astir however young helium and his costars similar Caleb McLaughlin and Millie Bobby Brown were erstwhile they started out. And similar with seniors astir to postgraduate precocious school, he’s felt a spot stuck successful time: “distinct things” from each the mode backmost successful play 1 consciousness similar they happened recently.

“At this point, I’ve astir been doing Stranger Things longer than I haven’t,” Matarazzo remarked. “It’s been a beauteous jarring happening to recognize however rapidly it each flew by. […] Coming to presumption with letting spell is progressively difficult, successful a enactment and beingness sense. You tin ever expect that adjacent season, work-wise and emotionally. So it’s going to beryllium a antithetic accommodation and I can’t hold to spot what happens next.”

As for what happens adjacent successful Stranger Things, Matarazzo had immoderate absorbing teases. Where erstwhile seasons put Dustin with a antithetic character, this is present happening for the full main cast. He told THR each of them would beryllium “paired differently” from their accustomed groups, which volition pb to “a batch of amusive opportunities” for everyone. Without giving thing away, helium indicated Dustin would stock screentime with characters helium has and hasn’t before. “It’s a bully equilibrium of familiarity and keeping that household close,” helium teased, “but besides seeing however overmuch we tin elevate these characters with each other.”

You tin work Matarazzo’s afloat interrogation with THR here. Netflix is aiming to release Stranger Things’ final play sometime in 2025.

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