Stranger Things 4: Millie Bobby Brown and Noah Schnapp talk about the end of the Netflix series

The end of Stranger Things is near but not quite yet. Netflix decided to open the fourth and final season, of 9 chapters. On Friday, May 27, the five chapters of volume one premiere; and on July 1 you will see all four of volume two.

While millions of fans are eager to know how the eighties story of science fiction and supernatural horror about Eleven and his friends will end, the actors and the production have already said goodbye to the series that appeals to teenagers and adults alike.

Clarion agreed to a few minutes of chatting via videoconference with Millie Bobby Brown, the main star forming raised that female powerpuff as a lab mouse; and includes Noah Schnappwho plays Will Byers, the first victim of that evil force from the “Other Side” that intimidates the people of Indiana, United States.

Real -life friends, teenagers now -Brown will be 18 years old in February, while Schnapp will be 18 years old in October- said how they deal with the ending from stranger and a stage that will mark them forever.

“It’s something we grew up with. For adults it seems like it’s going to be sad, but we are we started when we were kids so it was harder to let gobecause of the bonds that we generate between all of us ”, Millie reflects, in her natural British accent.

“Well, I feel emptiness. I just want to hide under the hat. I was a bit disappointed, and it will be very sad when it is over. It’s hard to say goodbye, ”said New York -born Schnapp.

“Chapeau to the Duffers, who made an incredible show and it will definitely be memorable,” added long -suffering Will, who this season will move to California with Eleven, his mother, Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder), and his brother Jonathan (Charlie Heathon). ).

Bloody, naughty and with a new villain

The new strange things darker and bloody than before, altered by the humor properties of ATP. But the scary prevails, mainly because of the new villain, a humanoid entity called Vecna who eats the same energy as others, but seems smarter and worse.

Like the Shadow Monster or the Demogorgon, the underworld creatures that haunt the town until the final battle of Starcourt, Vecna he chooses his victims by entering into their psyche.

This time, he seeks to martyr Max (Sadie Sink), Eleven’s friend Will, Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin).

At the distance of Eleven, trying to reclaim his telekinetic powers, the men try to protect him by relying on Nancy (Natalia Dyer), Steve (Joe Keery) and Robin (Maya Hawke), the biggest in the group, and together they investigate where this horrible ghost is coming from.threatening the world.

As Shawn Levy, director and executive producer of the series, said at the world premiere: “Vecna ​​made a Demogorgon adorable”he condemned, comparing it to the carnivorous monsters with plant heads that raged in ancient times.

David Harbor, the actor who plays former Hawkins Sheriff Jim Hopper, called Vecna ​​a “psychological horror we haven’t seen before.” Father Hopper stars in one of the subplots of the fourth season: he is still alive but imprisoned in a prison in Kamchatka, Soviet territory where Joyce and Murray (Brett Gelman) travel to rescue him.

“A crazy ending” and Will’s skimpy cut

If in the early stages of 2016 and 2017, strange things crossed over the goonies na ET included Close Meeting of the Third Kind and some to Stephen King or John Carpenter, in the most recent stage — where each episode is worth 30 million dollars– they seem to be adding nods to more ’80s classics like the Freddy Krueger saga and The Exorcist.

Clearly Matt and Ross Duffer, the creators of this universe, wanted to show their love for movies in that decade, in which they grew up. Whether or not they enjoyed summoning Robert Englund, the actor who played Freddy, for the last 9 chapters.

So far, Duffers ’approach has pleased critics and audiences. But like any series of global massiveness, the siblings will have to face an intense and demanding fandom that will throw their feelings and opinions about the ending on social networks.

-Do you remember how you reacted when you read the script for graduation?

-brown: Why, first of all, I didn’t know that Eleven would show up again with his head shaved. So I had to go back to wearing a hat every morning. I’m excited about the script. But most of all I was surprised by the fact Eleven went back to being Eleven ever since, he went back to his former traumas, his past. I don’t have much to say about volume two, but volume one definitely shocked me.

-Do you think this is an ending that will make the fans happy?

-brown: I don’t know what the fans want. But I’m sure the Duffers will succeed, as always.

Schnapp, for his part, joked about the look they gave his character this season: “I know the fans like it: that I change my romper cut. They ask me about it,” he said. Do not enlarge: there is a petition on Change.org to let her wear a different hairstyle.

Since its release, in July 2016, strange things It has been nominated three times for an Emmy award for best drama and one of the most watched titles on Netflix. Season 3 garnered 582 million hours viewed and ranks as the third most-watched English-language series in the Top 10 of all time.

It is intuited that the two parts of the fourth will contend Bridgertonwhich tops the historical rankings in its second (over 656 million hours viewed) and in its first season (over 625 million).

What fans like about Millie Bobby Brown

Millie Bobby Brown was born almost coincidentally in a hospital in Marbella, Spain, but she is British and in 2011 she moved to Florida, United States. He started working as a child: at the age of 9 he appeared in two episodes of the series Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.

He was 12 years old when he started filming strange things. Despite his young age, decided to shave his head to include Elevena decision that first made him nervous and then made him stronger, he once said.

As a global star who has received two Emmy nominations and is considered one of the magazine’s hundred most influential people TimeMillie is a billing machine and over the years she has become a real It Girl, plus 48.5 million followers on Instagram.

-What was the scariest question or one a fan said to you?

-brown: I don’t know if anything scary, necessary. People make me look at Eleven’s face, or They ask me if I have powers. I would love to have them but well … In your case (looks at Schnapp), it must be overwhelming that girls are obsessed with you, that they are in love with Will.

-Schnapp: Yes, insane. But it feels delicious, fun. Even when we meet fans, they always wear hats strange things and all series merchandising. The zest to feel, the cool.

Brown and the sexualization of the media

Brown is one of many wonderful actors who, as the face of a tremendous success, has suddenly come of age, and into the whole world view. Recently, after aging, He thought about how the media and networks make him sexual in a public statement using the podcast Offended Feminist that makes Los Angeles Times.

“I’ve really dealt with it (sexuality) more these past two weeks, after turning 18. I can see a big difference in people’s behavior and what the reaction of the press and social media has been to my aging.”, Held.

Brown said any girl her age “has to deal with being an adult, having relationships and friends, being loved and trying to fit in.” “It’s a lot, and in the midst of it all, you’re trying to find yourself,” he added, noting that it’s “really overwhelming” when that happens in the public eye.

“Disgusting and true. This is a very good example of what is going on in the world and how it makes women sexual. I’ve been dealing with that forever, “he accused.

And he gave as an example when at age 16 he was “nailed” by media and social networks for wearing a low-cut dress at an awards ceremony: “My God, is this really what we’re talking about, instead of talking about the amazing people that are there?

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