Topics are, sometimes, for a reason: because they work. For example, the cliché of the distasteful, arrogant, insensitive, and cruel character who develops into a hero tormented by his past and willing to do anything to redeem himself. We’ve seen it in thousands of movies, read it in thousands of other books, and probably know one of them personally. Strange things He has his: Steve HarringtonWhich he has embodied since the first season Joe Kerry.
In the now distant opening episodes, few viewers wanted the Demorgorgon not to snack on Steve Harrington. The Duffer brothers did their part by designing the classic king of the high school playground, a relentless invader as much as he was oblivious and cruel to the weak.
but, After four seasons, Steve Harrington has become one of the audience’s favorite charactersas already happened (in more disturbing terms) with Jaime Lannister game of thrones. However, Steve Harrington’s first sketch wasn’t far off from the incestuous nobleman played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
Steve Harrington, worse than you remember
One actor can change everything. It was so Joe Kerryis much older than the rest of the teen actors (he’s already 33), but was no more experienced than them at the time the film was made. Strange things.
It’s common for directors and screenwriters to have an actor change their personality or physique to adapt to the character, in the same way they lose weight to take advantage of that perfect jacket we have in the closet. On other occasions, it is the item of clothing that needs changing. Joe Keery almost sent Harrington’s trademark jacket into the trash.
In the pilot the Duffer brothers had in mind, Steve Harrington was to be “(literally)”The biggest idiot on the planetSomething that partly proves its existence in the first act that we all saw, but without going as far as what the Duffers had in mind: That Steve Harrington raped his girlfriend, Nancy Wheeler, played by Natalia Dyer.
but, Joe Keery’s natural charm caused the Duffers to tone down Steve Harrington’s unpleasant traitswho still manages to be unlikable for most of the first season. Then comes his redemption, of course. Redemption that would hardly begin, as the Dover family planned, with rape.