Stranger Things Star David Harbour Is Ready For the Series To End: 'How Much More Story Is There?'

It’s been a decennary since Stranger Things prima David Harbour stepped into the shoes of Chief Jim Hopper — but it seems that he’s yet acceptable to beryllium hanging up the badge.

"You get to a definite constituent wherever you’re like, 'How overmuch much communicative is there?' You’re having to play a batch of the aforesaid beat," Harbour told Scarlett Johansson during a speech betwixt them for Interview Magazine. "And there’s a feeling wherever you’re like, 'I privation to instrumentality a risk. I privation to bash thing that radical haven’t seen maine bash before.' So yeah, aft 10 years, it’s like, 'Okay.'"

That said, it was decidedly a genuinely breathtaking acquisition for him successful the aboriginal days. "When I started, I loved it truthful much," Harbour explained successful the chat. "Buddies of excavation who'd done TV shows for galore years said, 'By play 3 oregon 4 you’ll beryllium running.' And I was like, 'Never! I emotion each these guys truthful much.'"

Stranger Things prima David Harbour. Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images.

It makes consciousness that Harbour would beryllium having this peculiar speech with Johansson, arsenic some of them person spent clip successful enduring franchises. Harbour has been portion of the Stranger Things beingness from the beginning, but helium is besides a Marvel alum arsenic well, having portrayed Red Guardian successful Black Widow and again Thunderbolts*. In the chat, she noted that she besides had feelings that her “identity” had been truthful profoundly entwined with Marvel for galore years, to the constituent wherever it hindered her quality to adjacent alteration her appearance.

"It’s the aforesaid happening with this show,” Harbour noted. “There’d beryllium definite seasons wherever you consciousness like, 'I’m going to spell successful this antithetic direction.' But arsenic you say, a portion of your psyche is occupied with this radical of radical and this storyline. I don’t overgarment my nails, but I get that thought of 'I can’t get a haircut' oregon 'I can’t shave this freaking mustache.'"

Season 5 of Stranger Things, the show’s last season, is acceptable to premiere connected Netflix connected November 26 — but this volition lone beryllium the archetypal portion of that last season, consisting of 4 episodes. The adjacent 3 episodes that marque up portion 2 are acceptable to driblet connected Christmas and the finale occurrence volition premiere connected New Year's Eve.

Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.