How David Harbour Lost So Much Weight For Stranger Things Season 4
Given that he lost a staggering 60 pounds for the part, exactly how David Harbour lost so much weight for Stranger Things season 4 has been perplexing many viewers. As far back as Stranger Things season 1, star David Harbour’s body has played a surprisingly big role in the series. In the opening scenes of the show’s pilot, Stranger Things depicted Harbour’s bedraggled police chief Hopper waking up from a night of heavy drinking with his sizable gut on full display.
Hopper’s «dad bod» was a stark contrast from the more chiseled leading men that viewers have come to expect on television, and the Netflix hit doubled down on this inStranger Things season 3. One problematic subplot from that divisive season saw the belligerent Hopper making boorish passes at his love interest Joyce Byers, and the actor’s massive, muscular frame was a reminder that the character wasn’t always the harmless teddy bear that many viewers thought of him as. However, Stranger Things season 4 introduced a new, much slimmer version of Hopper, and the actor put a lot of work into the dramatic transformation that echoed the big changes his character went through.
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Harbour lost 60 pounds to play Hopper in Stranger Things season 4, dropping the weight around the same time that he shot flashback scenes for Marvel’s Black Widow. Harbour’s weight loss was a lot of work as the actor needed to portray a beaten-down, brutalized Hopper trapped alone in a remote Russian prison camp. However, while the process was grueling, Harbour’s method of losing weight was a lot less complicated than many body transformations actors undergo. Per the actor himself: “It’s amazing. You try to do all these different things,
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