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'Stranger Things' stars Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Natalia Dyer, and Charlie Heaton talk with Audacy hosts Megan Holiday, Julia Leipidi, and Johnny Mingione about Season 5 on Netflix.
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00:00Jonathan Jones from New 1027 in New York City I'm here with the cast of
00:05Stranger Things guys congratulations on the fifth season such a beautiful show
00:09one of the best shows in television history and I mean that Charlie what was
00:16it like on the very last day of filming the emotionality with all of you guys
00:22yeah it was like a look at yeah being hit by a train um no it was um yeah it was
00:30beautiful without giving anything away but the way we got to end it and the way
00:35the brothers planned for it to end for us I think they were very yeah you know
00:41they were really thoughtful about how they wanted to close it out fun you know
00:45there's a story but for us as you know yeah this was people who've been working
00:49on it for ten years and they set it up in such a way that we got to have this we
00:56shot the scene and and there is scenes I won't specifically talk about it but it
01:02just allowed us to really you know really feel all the things and get a proper
01:08goodbye that's just probably as maybe as vague as I yeah without giving it away
01:17yeah but saying goodbye to each other after saying I mean growing up together
01:20you guys have been together for over ten years do you still all stay in touch you
01:25know we hate each other
01:27it was really sad we started crying and we didn't stop kind of and it was cyclical when
01:41people see it I feel like they're really gonna feel even though they don't know us or
01:45you know how the love that went into having it be both meaningful for us and
01:50meaningful for the story yeah I think that will become clear yeah it's you
01:55always have that thing as an actor of your experience making something that
02:00you know there's there's the thing you make which is great and I mean hopefully
02:04great and get to give that to the audience but you have your own experience
02:08it's really special and just in your life and I think in some ways it felt like we
02:12kind of got hopefully as you're saying like I don't know like it's crossover and
02:17that it pays off and and that you get to experience that as the audience too
02:20I'm Megan Holliday I'm from K-Rock in Los Angeles and Live 105 in San Francisco
02:26a lot of time went by between filming so how easy or difficult was it to jump back
02:33into the characters and how do you feel like your character evolved in this new
02:39season and if we can start with Charlie and just tell me I was gonna say I'm
02:43gonna or we can start with Joe you said something to me I remember we were
02:49talking about it when we were shooting and you said it's like you said
02:51something I thought was really interesting so you you say it well like when you
03:00start the show you're in this place and then every time it's kind of like you
03:04said earlier actually so we're on the same
03:11you shoot it and then you live your own life and then you go back to this
03:14character and you know lots change and then you go live more life and then you
03:18come back and like this time definitely felt like for me it was like wow I feel
03:22maybe at the start the furthest that I've ever felt from this but kind of it's cool to
03:30think about I don't know the characters life and how maybe your own life sort of
03:35mirrors it in a way and how it's different how that can maybe just bring
03:40new depth to what the characters experiencing in the season so yeah you
03:45kind of can't help but just incorporate your own your life into because it is
03:48your life really last year 2024 for me if I look back on that year in my phone
03:54and my camera whatever it's like stranger things all year yeah that's kind of cool that we had
04:00that yeah did I answer your question yeah yeah absolutely yeah yeah just how was it
04:05jumping back in and how has your character changed or evolved yeah I mean
04:12yeah I think jumping back in is is it's both it's that things like it feels like it
04:18was a while ago but also feels like it was yesterday um I I do think the costume for me
04:25the wig you know like there's there's a lot of that that I think comes into it where you're like oh
04:29yeah we're back we put on the full look um oh we're back and like and you know we've been
04:37shooting in this um the same sort of studio a lot for all these seasons and you know it's
04:43kind of like coming back to school or so you know there is that returning element that's somewhat
04:46familiar in those seasonal things of life like school or college and your or camp we talk about
04:52camp a lot um and getting to come back to that space together I think you know brings you back
04:58in did I answer your question yeah yeah they're all great yeah yeah I feel like I mean I we've all got
05:06to grow up with these characters so much and I feel like the different this Robin became like a weird
05:13broken mirror for me where like there were always so many ways in which I was like this is exactly who
05:20I am and so many years like oh I'm actually not this person and I you know and that kind of opposition
05:27and rub I think was there at the beginning of every season that I started from like even my first season
05:33of being like okay who is this character how do I fit into her and how is she being inspired by me
05:40how am I being inspired by her I mean I have a rule for myself I'm not allowed to buy clothing
05:43when I'm working because I will buy clothing for the character and then the show will wrap and I'll
05:50be like why do I have all of these 80s like skinny jeans or like why do I have this petticoat
05:55when did I think I needed a petticoat um so it's like it all gets very blurry um especially when you're
06:01doing something for so long but I think when I look back at all of the seasons I see a different Robin
06:06every season even if other people see one character on a journey I see you know a person
06:12who went into every season trying to figure out how to make it mean something to them you know
06:18in a new way that year um in a new moment and kind of live and breathe within that person and I think
06:25the season was no different um but if anything this season for me was the most like the least in
06:31my head about what does this say about me and who am I and how is this working for me and it was more
06:35just like oh I just get to be here at camp with my guy I'm just gonna try to be present and look
06:40into the eyes of my guys and like get to live in this world similar to I guess everyone's answer
06:48in a way uh it's that finding the parts of you that are close to this character I don't know sometimes
06:55I feel like it's very like the same thing it's like the character's me in the bones and then
06:59sometimes I'm like actually that's really not me and I've got a really fucking work sorry
07:04you know I don't know you know figure out who um that is but I will say one thing and I did this
07:12recently I had to we I said goodbye what I noticed I said goodbye to Jonathan right we all said goodbye
07:18I had to put the costume and the wig on recently to do something for you know for the show and it
07:24was what I and I didn't think too much about this when I was filming it but it was I really came to me
07:31was like I instantly my posture changed a little bit and I felt a bit more nervous and I felt a bit
07:37more quiet than I usually am and it was just amazing that that did that it was like it was
07:41like saying hello to a friend yeah like yo the research oh same thing yeah oh yeah I've got this
07:48this and it was it was crazy you know I guess yeah yeah thank you so much thank you I am Julia from
07:59Alt 98 7 in Detroit um during a rewatch or just looking back on any of the seasons was there something
08:06that maybe you didn't recognize the brilliance of then but now you've really appreciated it was it
08:10whether it was a scene or a moment in the show Charlie we'll start with you oh I just talked
08:15so much of it yeah I I guess like broadly probably most of it in a way I don't know what I mean is
08:25like when you're in when you're in there no when you're in the eye of the storm sometimes it is hard
08:29to appreciate it for what it is and I think just kind of this season I think everyone made such a
08:35conscious effort to look around and be like what is this look look at what we're doing and and you
08:41know try and be present because get you know when you're filming for a year or two years of course
08:46there's days when it's just work and you're just coming in and you know you've seen the same faces but
08:49this season felt like every day let's try and not taste you know let's as much as we can try and
08:55take a big grind every set you're on every moment because we it's something that does feel bigger
09:01than all the some of his parts don't remember the question am I answering yeah yeah and I guess I
09:11guess to also sometimes just re-watching the show is you know you get to like Natalia was saying you
09:16you know you read it as that's like that's like us watching it for the first time you do it and then
09:21you watch the product back and sometimes I'm like wow wow the brothers are genius you know you forget
09:27you know and you're like oh that's what they were doing this whole time when we were sharing looks
09:31and you know making silly faces or you know it's like you see it as a as an entity and you're like
09:39wow and also the different the difference between one two three four five they're all separate volumes
09:43with their own energy and their own references and that's the brothers and that's why people like
09:48the show and that's the end of my answer I mean I feel like every I can see I was like thinking
09:58obviously while he was talking I was thinking about what I was going to say and I not listening
10:02but when I can see what I like I'm trying to say in print as a poll quote and I don't like it but I
10:09but I'm going to try to say it nevermind I feel like every single season I was like on even on season
10:15three I'd watch the first two season show oh my god this show's incredible it's amazing I read the
10:19show I'm like oh they lost it like I don't I don't think I get it and then I would come and do it and
10:24then I would watch the show and be like it's amazing you know like oh my god and so sometimes I feel
10:28like I was just like always an idiot like the an idiot of just being like I don't know if this
10:32scene's gonna I don't know if this dynamic of these two characters together is gonna work and I'm like
10:36oh that's incredible and so I sometimes just feel like an always idiot every time I watch the show
10:41because there are so many things like I don't think this scene's working like god what are we
10:45just doing like okay yeah we're gonna share looks right in here it's so stupid and then it's like
10:49oh my god it's moving I'm crying and I and so I kind of like you feel like such an idiot but this
10:56last season I finally like undid my my feeling of being the uncanary in the coal mine of just like
11:03being completely wrong always about what was going to work and what wasn't going to work and this
11:07season I was just like I'm I trust I like I just trust so much that there's something there's a
11:13I don't know that they were doing I just like I didn't know what I was doing and this season I was
11:21like oh it doesn't matter that you don't know what you're doing because they know what they're doing
11:24yeah it's very easy to get you know sort of tunnel vision about your storyline or your character
11:32things that you think and especially after you know working being in a character inhabiting a
11:37character for years and you do start to feel precious about them and you start to you know
11:41advocate and for them in certain ways but I do think um yeah I I think just those moments where
11:50you go back and watch these dynamics and how how the the Duffers you know they're young and they
11:55started young and I think that's you know something that they probably had to fight against but
11:59but they really do hold so much space and thought and care for all of these characters and their
12:05stories and their interactions and their dynamics and I think it's really easy sometimes to want to
12:10fight against that when you have so many opinions and feelings about it but in the end I I agree I
12:15think I'm always just like yeah man they really they've they have their storytellers they're
12:19visionaries and they're storytellers and I think you know giving them their their their props for
12:23this whole arc journey it's crazy that they did it yeah those guys I really like about the show
12:31that they have so many different versions of um like an outcast and what it means to be like left
12:38out so far beyond just like the nerds the this the that I feel like they just have like they painted
12:46such a it's larger than life obviously but they painted such like a great uh picture of what
12:52it means to be young um and I think that's so cool and I think that's why I connected to people
12:57yeah they also have such an extraordinary attention to detail like I was just recording a rock and
13:03robin like PSA announcement and I got texts from them being like hey we reviewed the material like
13:09we didn't have time to rewrite it but we think it's okay let us know if you have any problems
13:12and it's like that's love like that's they're not just paying attention to the script on the show
13:18they're paying attention to like the scripts of the promotional material and if you're their actor
13:23like if you need them you can text them any day and be like this line doesn't feel right this doesn't
13:27like what do you think and they're there for you and they're paying attention and they love these
13:31characters and it's such an honor to get to work with creators and writers like that for sure yeah
13:36you guys are all so multi-talented if you guys had to do one super group of stranger things a band
13:41I know you're all musicians or most of you who plays lead guitar charlie playing drums
13:45I'll do well what do you want what do you guys want uh I'd like to do I'd like to do lyrics if
13:52that's okay at least like I'd like to be like capped like like sort through other people's lyrics and
13:56like be captain you want to be in charge I want to be in charge I've never played bass in a band
14:05oh I would really like to play the bass I feel like that's uh unless Natalia you want to play the
14:09bass I could give it a go yeah do you play bass oh she plays I can I'm a I'm a quick study so uh
14:17can gayton be our lead singer yes okay yes yes oh my god what would the band name be oh man the
14:25gaytonos yeah there you go because we'd be in support of gayton yeah thank you guys so much
14:32thank you guys so much
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