David Harbour On Hopper's Stranger Things Season 4 Character Evolution
David Harbour says he wanted to change his character Jim Hopper from being just a doting dad in Stranger Things season 4. Created by brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, Stranger Things first debuted on Netflix in 2016 and has since become a massive hit for the streamer, earning itself a legion of fans and smashing viewership records. Set during the 1980s, the show follows a series of supernatural occurrences in the town of Hawkins, Indiana, linked to an alternate reality dubbed the ‘Upside Down’ and a series of covert government experiments conducted at the Hawkins National Laboratory.
Picking up a few months after the events of Stranger Things season 3, season 4 part 1 sees Harbour’s Jim Hopper far from home, and imprisoned in a Russian gulag. Once thought to be killed in the explosion at the Starcourt Mall in the season 3 finale, instead Stranger Things season 4 reveals Hopper was captured by Russian forces and punished for his role in destroying the gate into the Upside Down. Meanwhile, Joyce (Winona Ryder), Will (Noah Schnapp), Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) have moved to California, and the township of Hawkins finds itself facing a new supernatural threat in the form of the frightening villain Vecna.
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In a recent interview with The Wrap (via Yahoo) Harbour discussed his return to the role of Hopper in Stranger Things season 4, and what he felt his character needed in terms of his development. Suggesting that Hopper “had to have a reinvention,” the actor said his fake death in season 3 allowed his character to be redefined. Harbour says Hopper could become more than just the father figure. Check out his full
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