Having grown up on the set of “Stranger Things” across nearly a decade, Finn Wolfhard has conflicted feelings about the series (and his character’s) ending. Wolfhard, who’s played series protagonist Mike Wheeler since November of 2015, confessed to People that there were a lot of emotions to navigate while filming the finale.
“I was so happy with his ending, and I don’t know, I was satisfied, but I was also very confused and sad, but also very happy,” he said. According to Wolfhard, filming the finale “was definitely a lot. I felt like I was in a dream or something. None of it felt real. I don’t know, it felt perfect.”
Wolfhard (who’s now 22) joined the series at just 13 years old and has grown up in front of our eyes each season alongside co-stars Millie Bobby Brown, Noah Schnapp, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin and Sadie Sink.
Having been starring in the series for nearly half his lifetime, Wolfhard admitted that the hit Netflix series finally coming to an end didn’t seem real at first: “I just couldn’t believe it at all,” he said. “It didn’t really start to go into focus until the next day. It was like an emotional hangover. But it ended really well, and I just have such positive things to say about everyone.”
Co-creators and executive producers Ross and Matt Duffer teased the fifth and final season of “Stranger Things” during a Netflix event in early January: “We spent a full year filming this season. By the end, we’d captured over 650 hours of footage. So, needless to say, this is our biggest and most ambitious season yet. It’s like eight blockbuster movies.”
