Strangers Things' Brett Gelman talks teaming up with Winona Ryder and going full "80s action-comedy duo"
It's no secret that Stranger Things is a love letter to the films of the '80s. Over the years, creators Matt and Ross Duffer have talked openly about how the show has been inspired by some of the decade's most iconic releases, from E.T. and The Goonies to A Nightmare on Elm Street, and its retro vibes are undoubtedly one of the reasons why the Netflix show remains so popular.
Its stars aren't immune to its unapologetic nostalgia fuel, either. In the sci-fi horror's soon-to-be-released season 4, Brett Gelman – who was a kid himself in the '80s – returns as journalist-turned-conspiracy-theorist Murray Bauman, having been promoted to series regular this time around, and he can hardly believe some of the stuff the Duffers had him do in the new episodes.
"It's so unbelievably exciting. I feel like I'm in a movie that I would've watched as a child that would have made me want to be in movies," he tells Total Film in a new interview. "To be doing that with a movie star that I grew up worshipping is just all part of this dream-like experience that I'm having on this show."
That movie star is Winona Ryder, who rose to fame in titles like Beetlejuice (1988), Heathers (1988) and Edward Scissorhands (1990), and who Gelman shares most of his scenes with in Stranger Things 4. As teased in posters and first look pics, Ryder's Joyce Byers teams up with Murray to investigate the mysterious "death" of Jim Hopper (David Harbour).
In the season 3 finale, which aired almost three years ago now, the Hawkins' former police chief looked to have been killed when they blew up the machine keeping the gateway between our world and the Upside Down open. But Joyce's hope is ignited at the start of Stranger Things 4 when she receives a strange
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