Season Four of Stranger Things
arrives on Netflix later this year.
But how has the cast been keeping themselves busy
in the gap between seasons?
Voice acting, music videos, Netflix Originals,
Hollywood blockbusters, you name it?
Here's what the kids from Stranger things
have been up to.
Millie Bobby Brown, who plays
the psychokinetically gifted Eleven,
starred in stacks of high-profile productions
between seasons of Stranger Things.
Most notably, she played the title role in Enola Holmes,
a 2020 Netflix Original mystery
based on the books by Nancy Springer.
In case you somehow missed it,
it's a sassy, energetic spin-off
from the classic stories by Arthur Conan Doyle,
which details the adventures of Holmes'
lesser-known little sister.
A second Enola Holmes film is in post-production,
with Bobby Brown returning alongside Louis Partridge.
Millie also found time to feature
in 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters
and in the 2021 sequel, Godzilla vs. Kong,
and there are other interesting roles
on the horizon.
She'll star in and executive produce
2023's Damsel,
another Netflix Original that subverts
the damsel-in-distress trope
and sees Bobby Brown's Princess Elodie
taking on a dragon rather than waiting to be rescued.
Seems Eleven's not the only one capable
of laying the smack down on terrifying monsters.
Finn Wolfhard, who plays Mike Wheeler,
has likewise been keeping himself active
with some high-profile releases.
In 2017's It,
he played the younger version of Richie Tozier
in this chilling adaptation of the Stephen King novel.
And more recently, he starred
in 2021's Ghostbusters: Afterlife,
a follow-up to the Ivan Reitman originals
directed and co-written by his son Jason.
In it, Finn plays Trevor Spengler,
grandson of the late Harold Ramis's Egon,
who gets to live out our collective childhood dream
of driving Ecto-1.
It's a significant step up from a pushbike
and a Peter Venkman outfit.
-Why are you Venkman? -Because I'm Venkman.
No, I'm Venkman.
Alongside big-budget Hollywood sequels,
Wolfhard has done plenty of voice work,
including Carmen Sandiego,
in which he features as Player,
a teenage hacker based on the unseen
live-action character
from the original 1994 animated series
Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?
He also added to his horror credentials
by voicing the sinister Pugsley Addams
in 2019's The Addams Family,
and he provided the voice of Boypunzel
in JJ Villard's Fairy Tales.
Really? I didn't know that.
More voice work is on the horizon for 2022
in Pinocchio,
in which he plays Lampwick,
as well as The Legend of Ochi.
He'll also star as Ziggy
in 2022's When You Finish Saving The World,
Jesse Eisenberg's directorial debut.
Next we have Gaten Matarazzo,
who plays Dustin,
everyone's favourite Demodog-raising
Neverending Story duetting superstar.
Beautiful.
Like the rest of the cast,
Gaten has loads of stuff on the go.
He produces Prank Encounters,
a horror-themed hidden camera show on Netflix,
and, like Finn Wolfhard,
he's been doing plenty of VO work.
He voiced Bubba in 2019's The Angry Birds Movie 2
and he'll play the role of Ramy
in the 2022 animated feature Hump.
Matarazzo also made a cameo appearance
as Casey the Electrician
in Michelle Obama's adorable cooking show for kids
Waffles + Mochi.
That's umami.
-Umami! -What about my mummy?
He also uses his fame to raise awareness
about his condition, cleidocranial dysplasia,
as well as fundraising
for non-profit organisation CCD Smiles.
Caleb McLaughlin plays Lucas in Stranger Things,
the most pragmatic member of the group
and undisputed master of the wrist rocket.
Like his co-stars, he's been super proactive.
He made his Hollywood debut in 2020's Concrete Cowboy,
directed by Ricky Staub
and based on the novel Ghetto Cowboy by Greg Neri.
In it, McLaughlin stars as Cole,
a Detroit teenager sent to live
with his estranged father Harp played by Idris Elba.
-I'm your father. -You ain't my father!
McLaughlin's performance drew praise,
and the story is based on the real urban
African American horse riding culture
of Philadelphia,
specifically the Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club.
In 2019, McLaughlin appeared
in Steven Soderbergh's High Flying Bird,
a sports drama detailing the world of pro basketball,
and he's also done plenty of voice work.
Featuring as young Gary in Final Space,
Ghost the Boy in Summer Camp Island,
and Trevor Johnson in Ultra City Smiths.
Noah Schnapp plays Will,
perhaps the most complex
and troubled member of the party.
A huge chunk of his childhood goes missing
and he spends a week in the Upside Down
being hunted by the Demogorgon.
In 2018,
he played nine-year-old crossword fanatic Otis
in Donal Lardner Ward's drama
We Only Know So Much.
And a year later he landed the lead role in Abe,
a comedy about a boy
who grows tired of mealtime arguments
and tries to reunite his estranged
half-Israeli, half-Palestinian family
via the medium of cooking.
2020 saw him feature in period drama
Waiting for Anya, in which he played Jo,
a 13-year-old shepherd
helping smuggle Jewish children into Spain
in an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's
popular young adult novel of the same name.
You're a monster!
And as if to prove how versatile he is,
Noah also featured in 2020 comedy horror
Hubie Halloween
alongside none other than Adam Sandler.
Ghost, scary,
but also the key to Halloween safety.
You'll know Sadie Sink as tomboy Max,
the skateboarding, Dig Dug-destroying outsider
who captures the hearts of Dustin and Lucas
in Season 2.
Aside from internet-breaking Taylor Swift videos,
her most recent appearance was in
Leigh Janiak's Fear Street.
She played Ziggy Berman in Part 2 of the trilogy,
cementing her horror movie final girl status
in this bloody homage to 70's horror.
It wasn't her first foray into the genre.
In 2019, she appeared as teenage nurse Haley
-in Ciaran Foy's Eli… -Boo!
…a movie about an autoimmune deficient boy
receiving care in a secluded
and sinister medical facility.
Looking ahead, Sadie will play the lead role
in 9/11 drama Dear Zoe,
as well as Ellie in forthcoming
Darren Aronofsky comedy The Whale.
That's not all. Sink is a vegan
and passionate animal welfare activist.
And in 2018, she collaborated
with the likes of Rooney Mara,
Joaquin Phoenix and Sia in Dominion,
an animal rights documentary from Chris Delforce,
a performance that would land her
an Award of Excellence for Narration
from the Hollywood International
Independent Documentary Awards.
Priah Ferguson's performance of Erica,
Lucas's take-no-prisoners younger sister,
made her the breakout star of Stranger Things Season 3.
The scourge of Scoops Ahoy's
free ice cream policy
and frequent tormentor of Steve Harrington.
More fudge, please.
And if you want to see more of her,
Priah appeared in 2018's The Oath,
a political comedy about a family
trying to survive a cursed Thanksgiving weekend.
Looking ahead, Priah is set to star
in Netflix's animated series My Dad the Bounty Hunter
and Marlon Wayans-produced Halloween movie Boo.
Can I try the peppermint stick?
Haven't you already tried the peppermint stick?
Yes, and I'd like to try it again.
So that's what the increasingly
inaccurately named Stranger Things kids
have been up to recently.
Who are you most excited to reconnect with in Season 4?
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