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A Stranger Things star has openly come out in defense of the show’s divisive ending. The comments come months after the Netflix show’s climax stirred the pot. David Harbour, who played Jim Hopper, has shared his reasons why such an ending was bound to happen.
What did David Harbour say about Stranger Things’ ending?
Speaking to Variety, David Harbour didn’t hold back from sharing how he felt about Millie Bobby Brown’s Eleven dying at the end of the series. While some co-stars suggested that Eleven might still be alive, nd viewers briefly saw her in a remote location, Harbour said he accepted the character’s death.
Harbour, while opining on the inevitability of it, even went as far as sharing that he found the show “repetitive” after a certain point.
Excerpts from the piece read, “Harbour loves that Eleven dies at the end. ‘A lot of people think maybe she’s in Spain or whatever,’ he says. ‘But right from the very beginning of that series — we love this little girl, but you really can’t have a little girl in Hawkins, Indiana, with supernatural powers running around. She just cannot exist.’
For life within the show to truly return to its status quo, all otherworldly aspects must go away. ‘Right from the beginning of the series — you gotta kill her.’ It seems clear, I say, that Harbour feels no ambiguity about Eleven’s fate; he agrees. ‘Until Netflix needs to raise their subscription rate. Then — ladies and gentlemen: ‘Eleven,’ the new series!”
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David Harbour further revealed how he felt about his character’s bond with Brown’s in Stranger Things. Observing how a powerful being in the form of a child still needed the protection of a police chief, the piece acknowledged that he observed “nuance in Hopper’s relationship with Eleven.”
“It’s like trying to heal shared trauma, which my therapist would say that we’re trying to do all the time, whether we acknowledge it or not,” Harbour said. “Those two are perfect interlocking puzzle pieces.”
David Harbour was recently seen in the HBO Max limited series DTF St. Louis alongside Jason Bateman and Linda Cardellini.
