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Remember whenJoe Keery’s Steve was just the d-bag with great hair onStranger Things?
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The hair has remained but the douchebag quotient has gone down significantly on Stranger Things 3.
No one is more surprised than Keery.
“It just feels like a fever dream,” says Keery of the last three years.
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Also, what they really have done is help showcase me.
I just don’t know what I did to deserve something so amazing."
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Steven and Robin’s relationship is one of the great surprises and delights of this season.
Did you and Maya have immediate chemistry?
It felt like we had already worked together, something like that.
Speaking of chemistry, Steve and Dustin have sorta become the friends no one expected but now everyone loves.
I know you and Gaten like working together.
I mean, that was another thing that they had talked about.
So I was so, so pumped to work with Gaten.
He is just so professional.
He has a profound amount of talent.
You give him two takes, and he can just nail anything you give him.
And then along with Maya as well, and Priyah [Ferguson, who plays Erica].
I felt so blessed.
And thething I feel that works really well about Gaten, we both bring different things to the table.
And maybe that’s why people really enjoy watching it because it’s kinda likeThe Odd Couple.
It’s this match that you didn’t really even know you needed.
Robin coming out to Steve in episode 7 is another highlight of the season.
Did you know that was happening?
That was something I had heard about earlier on.
I think it was something that was held close intentionally and for good reasons.
And then she does the same for me.
He started out as such a selfish guy.
By the end of the season, were you ready to burn your Scoops Ahoy sailor suit?
And then eventually, yeah, I read all the scripts, and then we did the costume fittings.
I don’t think it really hit me until the first day.
But after we shot the first day, to be honest with you, it grew on me.
It really is perfect for the character.
It’s such a good grounding tool.
You couldn’t ask for something more perfect.
So maybe I might burn it at some point or maybe just give it away for charity.
I really love that stuff.
You just forget that you’re on set acting.
It just feels very real.
All those sequences in [episodes] five and six, I thoroughly enjoyed.
You and Maya also have to be tied to each other for a good chunk of time.
She said that was actually very challenging.
And it takes you five minutes to get untied.
So you’re just like, “Let’s just stay tied together for six hours.”
Tied together was like kind of tiring.
And then you have to pretend to be high.
How did you maintain that loopiness?
Honestly, maybe we should have taken a shot.
I should have taken it upon myself to do that.
The season ends with so much shock and huge shifts for the series in general.
Do you know anything about whatStranger Things 4would look like?
I don’t know any details necessarily, and I’m not really allowed to say anything.
But I do know what my hopes and aspirations for it are and there are conversations going on.
They do leave it in a way where I do think that there are more stories to be told.
