David Harbour is glad ‘Stranger Things’ is ending

David Harbour has admitted that he is happy that Stranger Things is finally coming to an end.

• READ MORE: Here’s what we know about Stranger Things season five

Harbour has played the character, police chief Jim Hopper, for all five seasons of the hit Netflix sci-fi series.

Speaking to the Interview magazine, Harbour said: “When I started, I loved it so much. Buddies of mine who’d done TV shows for many years said, ‘By Season 3 or 4 you’ll be running.’ And I was like, ‘Never! I love all these guys so much.’ And then you get to a certain point where you’re like, ‘How much more story is there?’”

He continued: “You’re having to play a lot of the same beat, and there’s a feeling where you’re like, ‘I want to take a risk. I want to do something that people haven’t seen me do before.’ So yeah, after 10 years, it’s like, ‘OK.’”

Harbour’s comments come after he recently said he believed that his character was going to take his own life at the end of the first season.

The three-part release plan for Stranger Things season five was confirmed earlier this month with the first chapter set to drop on November 27 at 1am GMT.

The first season was aired in 2016 and the final season will be set in the fall of 1987, in keeping with the show’s traditional gaps of around a year between each season’s story. It will be set entirely in Hawkins as opposed to previous seasons going to California and Russia.

Filming for season five began in January 2024 and in July that year, Netflix confirmed that the team were halfway through production.

The streamer ended 2024 by sharing photos from a wrap party, with Stranger Things season five finishing filming in time for Christmas. 

Co-creator Ross Duffer said in April that fans could expect an “emotional, thrilling” fifth season. During the Broadway opening for Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Ross went on to tell The Hollywood Reporter: “It’s the end of a long journey, for everyone who made the show and also for those characters.

“It is thrilling and it’s our fastest start we’ve ever had – our heroes are in action right away, but I think ultimately, hopefully, it’s our most emotional season yet. Those final episodes, the goal is that they hit pretty hard because in a lot of ways it’s about the end of this journey we’ve all had and also the end of childhood.”

Elsewhere, in his recent chat with Interview magazine, Harbour also spoke to Scarlett Johansson about her executive producer credit on Thunderbolts*, which she asked Marvel to remove.

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