Stranger Things' Finn Wolfhard Discusses the Final Season and the Series Finale Script [Exclusive]

Stranger Things is coming to its much-anticipated conclusion this year, and star Finn Wolfhard promises that the "mini-movies" of its fifth and final season will be "unbelievably emotional." Wolfhard spoke to Collider's Steve Weintraub at the Sundance Film Festival while promoting his new A24 movie, The Legend of Ochi. When asked about the length of the season's episodes, as previous seasons featured increasingly longer episodes that bordered on feature-length, Wolfhard said:
"It’s definitely a long season. Not every episode is like a full-blown movie, but there are definitely some episodes this year that the runtime is definitely film-length. When all that adds up, I guess they are like little micro-movies. But there are some episodes that are still 40 minutes, 45 mins."
He defends the episode length, however, as necessary to properly address the fates of the show's sprawling ensemble cast: "To end a show that people have been watching for a long time, you want every character to have the best kind of ending," he explained. "And in order to do that, you have to take the time to do that." He also discussed reading the series finale for the first time, and its impact on himself and his fellow cast members:
"I read it with the cast and it was unbelievably emotional. We cold read it. We’d never read it before, so this was the first time we were all reading everything, and so it’s very overwhelming and really special. It was definitely one of those things that was much more emotional than I thought it was going to be. But I’m really happy about it and excited for it to come out."
Stranger Things' fifth and final season will premiere on Netflix later this year, though a specific release date has not been set.
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This is the most calm and collected I've ever seen Finn in an interview. Crazy, time flies.

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Bros thinking what to say without gettin in troube

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dude what was her problem lol, let Finn speak