{"id":221587,"date":"2019-07-05T02:12:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T06:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=221587"},"modified":"2019-07-05T02:15:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T06:15:19","slug":"stranger-things-star-finn-wolfhard-wants-to-direct-and-soak-up-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/05\/stranger-things-star-finn-wolfhard-wants-to-direct-and-soak-up-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Stranger Things’ star Finn Wolfhard wants to direct and ‘soak up the world’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cI don’t know if I’ll go right off the bat to post-secondary, to college,\u201d Wolfhard said in a recent phone interview. (File Photo:<\/a> Finn Wolfhard\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TORONTO — Like his \u201cStranger Things 3\u201d character, Canadian actor Finn Wolfhard is at a crucial point in adolescence.<\/p>\n

At 16, the shaggy-haired Vancouver star is trying to finish high school while juggling international fame, looming adulthood and goals for his career and garage-rock band, Calpurnia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t know if I’ll go right off the bat to post-secondary, to college,\u201d Wolfhard said in a recent phone interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have plans to, after high school, live on my own for a bit and try testing out living in a few different places and just being a kid for a few months, and just write and hang out with friends and stuff.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter ‘Stranger Things 4’ and graduating high school — if ‘Stranger Things 4’ happens, because it’s not official, but if it does — I’d love to just soak up the world a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also wants to direct features.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s why I wanted to get into acting, is because I wanted to be a director and I thought that if I acted, I could get a lot of experience just on set and learn a lot on set while also having an awesome time,\u201d said Wolfhard, who co-directed the music video \u201cSonora\u201d for his friend’s band, Spendtime Palace, in 2017 — when he was just 14.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m writing something now that I’m still trying to figure out. It’s more of an outline. I’m still developing the acts and stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Helping him along the way are his mentors on the set of Netflix’s Emmy-winning sci-fi\/supernatural hit \u201cStranger Things,\u201d which launched its third season Thursday.<\/p>\n

Wolfhard said the creators, the Duffer brothers, as well as executive producer\/director Shawn Levy and actors David Harbour and Joe Keery, have been \u201ca huge inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI love those guys. They’re definitely huge mentors for me. They just teach me a lot about everything — career and life and acting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wolfhard has made a splash as freckle-faced unlikely hero Mike Wheeler, part of a group of teens beset by mysterious events, frightening monsters and covert government operations in Hawkins, Ind.<\/p>\n

This season is set a year after the last one, in the summer of 1985, when another threat looms over the group’s excitement over new love and a new town mall.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt does have more gore and more blood but … it doesn’t take itself more seriously,\u201d Wolfhard said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has the fun and charming qualities that season 1 had and going into season 2. We’re amping everything up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wolfhard marvelled at how he started \u201cStranger Things\u201d as \u201ckind of a rookie\u201d a mere three years ago and has come a long way since then.<\/p>\n

He’s currently starring in a new campaign for French luxury fashion house Saint Laurent and has three major movies coming up this year alone: \u201cIt: Chapter Two,\u201d the follow-up to the 2017 hit in which he also had a role; \u201cThe Goldfinch,\u201d a drama with Nicole Kidman, Sarah Paulson, and Luke Wilson based on the acclaimed novel; and an animated remake of \u201cThe Addams Family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next year he’ll star in the supernatural horror \u201cThe Turning,\u201d executive produced by Steven Spielberg, and return to the Netflix animated series \u201cCarmen Sandiego\u201d for its second season.<\/p>\n

He revealed he’s also in talks to possibly be in a Canadian indie film being developed by Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux, who has directed music videos for Toronto punk band PUP, which has been a big inspiration for Wolfhard’s music group.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still kind of am a rookie, I consider myself, but I’ve definitely learned a lot since the first season about … film and people and what to say on set and stuff,\u201d Wolfhard said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m excited. Everything I’ve been doing is for a reason. I don’t want to get typecast and I’ve been doing a lot of stuff to make that happen and not be the case.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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