{"id":114590,"date":"2017-08-28T23:40:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T03:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=114590"},"modified":"2017-08-28T23:40:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T03:40:06","slug":"vancouvers-finn-wolfhard-talks-new-season-of-stranger-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/28\/vancouvers-finn-wolfhard-talks-new-season-of-stranger-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver’s Finn Wolfhard talks new season of ‘Stranger Things’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A year after starring in Netflix’s sci-fi\/supernatural hit \u201cStranger Things\u201d as Mike Wheeler, the friend of missing 12-year-old Will Byers, Wolfhard says his life has been \u201cdefinitely crazy, in a great way.\u201d (Photo<\/a> by Gage Skidmore\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TORONTO \u2014 Vancouver actor Finn Wolfhard is certainly no stranger these days.<\/p>\n

A year after starring in Netflix’s sci-fi\/supernatural hit \u201cStranger Things\u201d as Mike Wheeler, the friend of missing 12-year-old Will Byers, Wolfhard says his life has been \u201cdefinitely crazy, in a great way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI get recognized on the street and stuff, which is cool but it’s also weird,\u201d said the shaggy haired 14-year-old, who will appear with several \u201cStranger Things\u201d cast members at Toronto’s Fan Expo Canada, which runs Aug. 31 to Sept. 3.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t think my personality has changed at all, but my overall\u00a0lifestyle\u00a0<\/em>is a little different.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, Wolfhard’s star has risen dramatically in recent months, with profiles in major publications, producers booking him for more gigs, and celebrities expressing their love for the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cMeeting Ryan Reynolds was really cool, and Blake Lively,\u201d he said, noting he and Reynolds bonded over their Vancouver roots at the Golden Globes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were really, really sweet. Jonah Hill is super cool. I just did this comedy short with the director Jeff Baena and his longtime girlfriend is Aubrey Plaza, so we were all hanging out in the last two days and now we’re just all really good friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then there was the SAG Awards, where \u201cStranger Things\u201d won best performance by an ensemble. Wolfhard was standing beside cast member David Harbour as he gave a politically charged speech that drew a standing ovation. Star Winona Ryder’s look of confusion on stage during the speech inspired many memes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought that David was going to talk but then he pulled out a piece of paper and we were like, ‘Oh, he has a speech’ and it was super amazing and all the actors were freaking out onstage,\u201d said Wolfhard, noting \u201cEmpire\u201d star Taraji P. Henson was also cheering them on in the wings.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Winona just couldn’t hear. She heard like half the speech and then when we got offstage she was like, ‘I was making these weird faces because I couldn’t hear anything.\u201d’<\/p>\n

Season 2 of \u201cStranger Things\u201d debuts Oct. 31 and is set in 1984, a year after an Upside Down world rocked Hawkins, Ind., along with secret experiments and a psychokinetic girl played by Millie Bobby Brown.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of our characters are dealing with the backlash of last season, because no one can really be the exact same way they were after traumatic events like that,\u201d said Wolfhard.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we’re also trying to figure out what exactly is going on with Will and what exactly is going on with the Upside Down, what lurks beneath it, I guess, what else is there. Is there another passage to it?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Upside Down world was an actual set, not created with green screen technology, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can’t say too much but we went into these tunnels,\u201d said Wolfhard. \u201cIt was this giant, giant built set that you could walk through and it was really awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shannon Purser’s character Barb, who died in season 1, has become a fan favourite and will be incorporated into season 2 in some way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can’t say anything about her coming back but I can say there will be, as everyone says, ‘justice’ for her,\u201d said Wolfhard.<\/p>\n

The cast didn’t expect that Barb would become so popular, he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cBarb, she was meant to die on purpose to keep the story moving and to develop the characters, and so we thought nothing of it,\u201d said Wolfhard.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously we knew that Shannon was an amazing actress, but we knew that that was sort of the end for Barb. We didn’t expect that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wolfhard will next be seen in the film \u201cIt,\u201d which is based on Stephen King’s 1986 novel. He’s also voicing a character for the upcoming animated series \u201cCarmen Sandiego.\u201d<\/p>\n

He’ll be at Fan Expo Canada for a Q-and-A on Saturday, along with co-stars Gaten Matarazzo and Caleb McLaughlin.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re all best friends,\u201d said Wolfhard. \u201cWhat’s cool about this is we’re all experiencing it at the same time, like everything, so we all have each other to relate to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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