David Harbour Teases Stranger Things’ Final Episode: ‘Never Seen So Much Heavy, Heavy Weeping’

The last episode of Stranger Things will be an emotional one.

Stranger Things Season 5, which will be the final season of the popular Netflix series, is currently in production. An exact release date has not yet been set, though it is expected to be released in 2025.

David Harbour, who plays Jim Hopper in the series, told ComicBook that the cast recently read through the script for the final episode of Stranger Things Season 5.

What did David Harbour say about the final Stranger Things episode?

“Getting back to the OG crew of this final season has been wild in a way because we have come so far and it is not the show that we started in Season 1,” Harbour said. “I think that’s a wild experience for all of us. I mean, those kids were 11 years old when we started, 12 years old. Now they’re 20 and they’re shaving and they aren’t kids anymore. Finn (Wolfhard) just directed a movie. I think to have it all come back full circle…We just read we just did a read through of the last episode and the amount of crying… like the episode is very beautiful. But there’s also a deeper level of that, this was actually their childhood. They were 11 years old and grew up and fought this monster. And I’ve never seen so much heavy, heavy weeping from teenagers or young adults in my life.”

He further said of the experience, “There was some cameras there, but we didn’t do it for the publicists or the Instagram people. There was something intimate about the way they structured it that I’m hoping that you don’t see very much of that, because there was something profound in the sense that we are a family. There is the deeper level, it is about us as individuals who’ve worked together for nine years since they were kids, and that really came through. There was a real deep kind of honesty and heartbreak and bittersweet quality to all of it.”

Along with Harbour, Stranger Things stars Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers, Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson, Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair, Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield, Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler, Joe Keery as Steve Harrington, Maya Hawke as Robin Buckley, Jamie Campbell Bower as Vecna, and more.

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