Gaten Matarazzo Was Told Stranger Things Would Only Get One Season
Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo revealed in a recent interview that the hit show wasn't initially expected to last more than one season. Created by The Duffer Brothers, Stranger Things first premiered on Netflix in the summer of 2016 and became an instant commercial and critical success. After the release of its third season in 2019, enormous viewership numbers had accumulted to crown the show as the most-watched original Netflix series ever at the time, an impressive feat for a show with relatively humble origins.
A delightfully addictive mix of science-fiction, horror, and investigative drama, Stranger Things follows a group of kids in the 1980s who encounter and face off against a plethora of mysterious extraterrestrial creatures and forces. Matarazzo plays Dustin Henderson, a sweet and sometimes bashful member of the show's central friend group that also features Finn Wolfhard as the loyal and conscientious Mike and Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven, a young girl with psychokinetic abilities. Distinctively dense with 80's pop culture references, Stranger Things maintains a charming childlike sentimentality that refreshingly balances the darker elements of the show with reminiscent levity.
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In an interview featured on the podcast Inside of You by Michael Rosenbaum, Matarzzo recalled his first days on the set of the show, before he or anyone in the cast or crew could even imagine how enormously successful the show would become. He tells Rosenbaum that six years ago, the cast all sat down in a cramped room to watch a very rough cut of the show. A warning, however, accomponied the casual screening: Matarzzo admits with a knowing gleam in his eye
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