The Strangest Things About 2018 SAG Nominee Stranger Things
Working with young actors isn't always easy. "We're shooting a scene in the abandoned bus, and one of the boys decides to fart. More than once," creators the Duffer Brothers told EW. "It became so toxic in the bus that the crew had to temporarily evacuate." Breakout star Millie Bobby Brown also had her moments, like the time she showed up to set mysteriously covered in glitter and caused a 45-minute delay.
"We immediately took Noah's mom aside, told her we had something to show her, and led her into a dark closet where we had propped up this frighteningly realistic corpse of her son…After the initial shock, she loved it," producers told EW of introducing the decoy Will to Schnapp's IRL family. "Before long, she was taking pictures with her child's fake corpse and texting the photos to all her friends."
Jancy shippers have Steve's (Joe Keery) likability to blame for the relationship not coming to fruition in the premiere season. "They got together, there was a kissing scene in the screen test," Charlie Heaton, who plays Jonathan, told Marie Claire. But, as Matt Ross Duffer explained to Variety, Keery was so "charming" that they decided to evolve his image and romance with Nancy.
Brown was more at peace with her transformation into Eleven than her fam was. "When the day of the haircut finally arrived, Millie's mom brought out a camcorder, while her dad ran away with tears in his eyes, unable to watch," the Duffer brothers recounted to EW. "It was a pretty dramatic scene."
"We literally consulted with the producers on Game of Thrones to learn security protocols," producer Shawn Levy told EW. "Now we have a code name [for the show]," star Millie Bobby Brown added about the secret-keeping. "And now I have a code name! It's this weird thing. On the call sheets our names are across it and if we lose it, we're dead."
Stranger Things was developed at Netflix under the name Montauk. "It was really going to be impossible to shoot in or around Long Island in the wintertime. It was just going to be miserable and expensive," Matt Duffer explained to The Hollywood Reporter. "It takes a long time to make a change like that, for your brain to accept it, to accept a new title and to accept a new name for a town."
Another risk of working with kids? Puberty. "Gaten, who plays Dustin, was changing so much during the course of the shooting. Luckily, you can't really tell, but by the time we were recording dialogue in post-production we couldn't use him because his voice had dropped so much," the Duffers revealed.
KID ANTICS LIKE FARTING AND STRAY GLITTER CAUSED ON-SET DELAYS
Working with young actors isn't always easy. "We're shooting a scene in the abandoned bus, and one of the boys decides to fart. More than once," creators the Duffer Brothers told EW. "It became so toxic in the bus that the crew had to temporarily evacuate." Breakout star Millie Bobby Brown also had her moments, like the time she showed up to set mysteriously covered in glitter and caused a 45-minute delay.
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