when Noah Schnapp He made his cinematic debut, on Steven Spielberg’s orders and alongside Tom Hanks in Bridge of Spies, and was still a nobody. Not after the movie either Caleb McLaughlin She has already made a few cameo appearances in … Series such as “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”, “Forever”, “Unforgettable” or “Shades of Blue” with Jennifer Lopez. It was the older brother, the boy. Gaten Matarazzo He only appeared in one episode of “The Blacklist”. Finn Wolfhard She appeared repeatedly on “The 100” and “Supernatural,” and as if a preview of what was to come later, Millie Bobby Brown was already the most in-demand: She was a young Alice in “Once Upon a Time in Wonderland,” the protagonist in “Intruders” and she switched “NCIS” with “Modern Family” and “Grey’s Anatomy.”
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For a decade they were Will, Lucas, Dustin, Mike, eleventhe hero gang of Stranger Things. They always will be, whether they want it or not, even when the final episode of the series that suddenly changed their lives, over the age of 20, airs on January 1. When it premiered on Netflix, they were between 12 and 14 years old. As kids their age opened the wheeled backpack phase of school, they were fighting against the mind flayer, against the Demogorgon, against… Vicna. They won and lost. They learned what the world was doing in front of the red light of the camera. They gave their first kiss in front of millions of spectators, moving from shorts, board games and bicycles to trucks with antennas and grenades. They became heroes, 80s references, who didn’t even live.
Those born after 2000, of the pure Zeta generation, were the best ambassadors of nostalgia. They went from anonymity to being stars. Success swallowed them up, and fame crushed them. They ceased to be them and became their characters, the inextricable alter egos of that gang who marched headlong toward adulthood but never reached it, doomed to live in Hawkins like Peter Pan, frozen in an age they had outgrown, trapped in a time they only lived because they were chosen by them. Dover Brothers.
“Fame has changed us a lot but it hasn’t changed us at all,” says Noah Schnapp, the boy who survived the Upside Down, the son of Winona Ryder in the Netflix series’ goosebumps, its unpredictable protagonist. Will Byers. “We as people have not changed. “We continued to be the same young, silly spirits we always were,” the actor explains. They are loyal at heart, but the world is at their fingertips thanks to the role they play in their lives. With the lesson of many broken games, but with the temptation, since then, to always plan. Growing up in front of the world is “like a therapy session,” admits McLaughlin, Lucas in “Stranger Things,” who went from “living in a town where he was one of four black kids in a sea of white people” to being an authority. “Being surrounded by adults from a young age, on this set, working long hours, has taught me how to do things, especially if I want to do something in my life or if I have a goal. To learn from different people and cultures.
Some wear shoes in the school of life; These kids have outgrown their clothes and their lives while filming. Within ten years, they had time to rise more than an inch off the ground, going from earning $250,000 per episode to nearly $7 million per season. For marriage, such as Millie Bobby Brownat the age of 20 years. To adopt a daughter at 21 years old. Time passes slowly in Hawkins, not allowing them to get past 16 years of age. But off the screen he flies. They live as best they can in a society of clicks, fast videos, and algorithms. Quickly, very quickly. “The popularity and money they deal with at 12 and 13 years old…makes you an adult. “They’re not having the childhood I wish they’d have,” said David Harbour, the warden, leader of this group of misfits’ rebellion and father. eleven And from all of them.
also Winona Ryder She advised them to try it: “I started my career when I was younger and always wanted to grow up. I thought: “This is not happening. This is a rare phenomenon. The work is the gift. That’s why you do it. This is what they instilled in me. I’ve been trying to change this narrative with the kids, because it’s instilled in them that they are very lucky and that this series ‘made them.'” I tell them: No. Netflix He’s very lucky. You are special. You are a magician. They guide them, but the world remains at a standstill. “Expectations are different with us: there is more pressure to be perfect, to know everything. It’s hard to grow up with that and have to go through adolescence and these difficult stages in front of everyone,” explains Schnapp.
Supporting the cast, creators and platform has been crucial since the series launched a decade ago. And it will be even more important now that it’s over. To accommodate the process, and make the mourning more bearable, Netflix split the finale into three parts. Live fast but die slow. The first four episodes of the fifth and final season will premiere on November 27. On December 26, a month later, the next three episodes will be shown. The final farewell to “Stranger Things” will usher in the new year. “We’ve been in this series for almost half our lives. “It’s bittersweet,” Caleb McLaughin says of the impending end.
A “sad” and “bittersweet” ending.
Nothing was normal about Hawkins anymore. The fifth installment begins with a two-year time jump. Children are not children, although they are much more than that in real life, they do not go to school, they do not play. They suffer the ravages of a nostalgia trip. Closed, see. Everything has changed in Hawkins, but deep down, nothing has changed. Like them. “The ending is the legacy we leave,” says Schnapp. “It was hard to say goodbye, I will be very sad.”. The pressure is maximum, what comes next, is unknown. It is time to live without setbacks in the world of law.
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