David Harbour has admitted that working with kids on Stranger Things made him “cranky”.
Speaking in a new interview with Jimmy Kimmel for the new Marvel movie Thunderbolts*, when asked who was the most moody out of the cast, Harbour said it was him. He is currently starring as Red Guardian alongside Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Hannah John-Kamen, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman and Wyatt Russell in the 36th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
“It’s gotta be me but my excuse is I have a day job where I work with a lot of enthusiastic children, a bunch of plucky kids sort of saving the universe and when you’re with that much youthful enthusiasm, I dunno you just feel cranky and old,” Harbour said of his Stranger Things co-stars.
Harbour has played the character, police chief Jim Hopper, for all four seasons of the hit Netflix sci-fi series, with a fifth and final season in production.
Despite his current comments, he did previously praise his Stranger Things co-stars in a separate interview, earlier this month.
“It’s why we cast them: because they were different than other kids,” he told GQ. “I’ve always wanted them to preserve that. It’s my thing with artistic integrity – I’ve always wanted them to know where their specialness comes from. That it’s not from how many followers they have or how much they sell, it’s that we saw something in them.”
Elsewhere in that same interview, Harbour also said that he believed that his character was going to take his own life at the end of the first season.
The final series of Stranger Things does not have a specific release date yet, but is expected to arrive on Netflix this year.
Stranger Things fans were given a first look at the fifth and final season last year. The show marked the halfway point of production over the summer, before wrapping on its last-ever run of episodes in December.
Elsewhere, first reactions to Thunderbolts*, recently highly praised the movie as the “best MCU film in a long while”. It is released in cinemas on May 2.
The post David Harbour says working with ‘Stranger Things’ kids made him “cranky” appeared first on NME.