Of all the actors who have been there Stranger Thingsmaybe none of them had a star entrance like Dacre Montgomery. To the rhythm of Rock you like a hurricaneDacre Montgomery arrived at Hawkins High School and from the first frame he had all eyes on both sides of the screen focused. This happens in the second season of the series, available exclusively on Netflix Spain.
Dacre Montgomery played the brother of Max (Sadie Sink) and his character seemed to have only one goal: to show that if the viewer had believed that the idiot kid of the series was Steve Harringtonit was because he didn’t know what was going to happen.
Montgomery renewed his contract for another season, and after his character’s death, we saw him in some flashbacks of the tormented Max. But, Didn’t his entry into Hawkins raise greater expectations? There’s a reason why Dacre didn’t go further.
What happened to Dacre Montgomery?
At 31, Montgomery shares a generation with his former film colleagues. Stranger Things Charlie Heaton, Natalia Dyer or Joe Keery. Their careers were a little more visible, while that of Dacre Montgomery He did not benefit from as much visibility: we saw him for example in Elvis, then he shot a film in his native Australia. He is currently awaiting the release of a feature film by Gus Van Sant (The hunt for indomitable will) in which he will share the screen with Al Pacino. That is to say: your CV is short, but every line is worth reading.
In an interview, Dacre Montgomery explained that Stranger Things He is directing his career towards a field that does not particularly interest him: that of star franchise. Terrain which presides, among all the components of the series, Millie Bobby Brown (now Millie Bon Bon), who appears to have an exclusive deal with Netflix to shoot movies that disappear immediately after the conversation. “I had the feeling that Stranger Things This was pushing me towards advertising, so I decided to take a step back»Montgomery reasoned.
This decline resulted in an interpretive truce of several monthsin which he did not accept any project of any kind. He wanted to know what step to take next and whether succumbing to the rapid fame of his (and well-paid) peers was ultimately not a bad option. He chose to stay true to his principles and his career was the result. We’ll see if Dacre Montgomery, by giving up being a Netflix star, doesn’t end up becoming a real star.
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