As the final episodes of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” get closer, David Harbour, who plays the police chief Jim Hopper, is thinking back on his time in the role.
In a recent interview with British GQ, Harbour — now promoting his new Marvel movie “Thunderbolts” — shared some unexpected thoughts. He said he originally felt that Hopper’s story should have ended much earlier.
On the show, Hopper is the adoptive father of Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), a girl with telepathic powers whose arrival in the small town of Hawkins, Indiana, sparks off a series of strange and dangerous events.
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However, Harbour believed that his character should have left the series sooner.
As for ‘Stranger Things,’ saying goodbye to Hopper this late in the story is something Harbour initially didn’t think should have happened. Before it became a phenomenon for Netflix, and there was a high chance it would run for only one season like any other show, Harbour read the scripts and was convinced the first season should have ended with Hopper dying by suicide. To him, it was the only way Hopper could apologize to his daughter.
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Although Hopper is set to appear in the fifth and final season, season three ended with a cliffhanger that made it seem like he had given his life to protect the people he cared about.
Even though a teaser at the end of the finale suggested he might still be alive, Harbour says a lot of fans liked the idea that he had made that ultimate sacrifice.
I think they were just committed to the beauty of that moment of his death. It was so moving that I think they almost didn’t want him to be alive.
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The last season of “Stranger Things” will be released on Netflix sometime later this year.
Source: Variety