As ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 draws to a close, David Harbour will make one final trip back to Hawkins before the Upside Down and all of its chaos come to an end.
When the walkout between actors and producers ended, Harbour declared himself “thrilled” to be returning to the sci-fi horror series.
While attending the BoxLunch Holiday Gala, an event honoring Feeding America, in Los Angeles earlier this week, the actor, 48, told People that shooting may very well commence from November 13 itself.
“I mean, I don’t know if we’ll be shooting next week, but yeah, as soon as possible. They literally called me, I think it was 10 minutes after the SAG-AFTRA thing on Twitter (now X),” he explained. “The first AD (assistant director) is like, ‘So, get the flight for you on Monday, right? We’ll be acting in Atlanta.’”
“I’m thrilled with that,” he continued. Ready to work, I am. Although there may be others who aren’t, I am ecstatic nonetheless.
He said that the entire experience has been extremely depressing, describing how his life has been since the actor’s strike and before that, when the WGA strike took Hollywood by storm for the entire year.
“I mean, you have to ask my wife (Lily Allen), because I’ve been sitting on the couch depressed as hell,” he said in an interview with People. It’s been awful.
“Oh, now I kind of have all this time,” he continued, “but then you just check your Google alerts every five minutes and are just neurotically insecure. It’s like what happened to me in the same way in COVID.” So I took no action.
“Maybe I read half a book, watched a bunch of TV, and then something else, but as of now I’m super excited to be back.”
The ‘Black Widow’ actor also said that the strikes had impacted his relationship with his wife, and for the better in bit of a weird turn as it did allow him to get a bit closer to his wife, and his kids. However, he is now glad that the strikes are over.
“Ultimately, it’s very good because you get to know someone. But, let me tell you, my wife likes when I go to work because it’s nice for her to have her life and me to have my life and for us not to just annoy each other by being around all the time.”
In reference to his stepchildren, Allen’s daughters Ethel, 11, and Marnie, 10, with her ex-husband Sam Cooper, Harbour said, “We have these two kids, and it’s so great.” “We get to raise them and all that, and our marriage keeps getting stronger and stronger.”
