Finn Wolfhard looked back on his time on set of Stranger Things and the challenges he came across as a 13-year-old navigating international fame.
Wolfhard played Mike Wheeler, one of the major leading roles in the series, along with Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven and Noah Scnapp as Will Byers.
In conversation with Variety, the IT actor talked about how his and his co-star’s characters, who were also 12-13 year olds in season one, evolved over time and more specifically in the final season.
He said that his character "evolved in a lot of ways that kids and people generally evolve and grow up, but under incredibly weird and sort of disturbing circumstances."
The Hell of a Summer star added that the show was "sort of mirror our own lives … obviously, for us, we weren’t like fighting inter-dimensional monsters or anything. But we did have an unorthodox sort of childhood that we went through being with each other."
The 22-year-old artist then went on tease his character’s role in the upcoming fifth and final season.
He said, "I think he’s specifically more into sort of keeping the group together, and a bit more active in his leadership role of the group."
In addition to Wolfhard, Brown and Schnapp, the cast also included Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield, Celeb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair and Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson.
Stranger Things fifth and final season will be released in three volumes with first one releasing on November 26, second on Christmas Day and third on New Year’s Eve.
