Imagine responding to a Craigslist ad and ending up on one of the biggest shows of all time,
starting a band and modeling gig on the side, and dodging some insane rumors and even crazier fans.
That's all just a regular day for Stranger Things' Finn Wolfhard.
Growing up, Canadian-born Finn Wolfhard found his passion for film through his father, Eric
Wolfhard. His dad was an aspiring screenwriter, so the Stranger Things star was exposed to
everything movie-related at a young age. However, unlike most actors, Wolfhard didn't get his first
acting gig from an agent: He actually got it by responding to a Craigslist advertisement!
It wasn't always Finn’s goal to become an actor. In fact, he actually wanted to become a filmmaker.
In a 2019 interview with The Irish Times, Wolfhard explained that he already had a
goal in mind when he first began his career in the acting world.
"I only wanted to start acting because I wanted to be a filmmaker. I still do.
I still want to be a director. But I thought acting was the best way to get into the film
industry so I started acting when I was nine and I loved it and I've never looked back."
When Netflix introduced Stranger Things in 2016, everything changed for the teenage cast. The show
quickly grew in popularity, and Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Caleb McLaughlin, Gaten Matarazzo,
and Millie Bobby Brown immediately grew a massive fan following on social media. Ahead of Season 4,
the cast prepared fans to see a grimmer and more serious side of the tweens with which we
originally fell in love. Not only did each season of Stranger Things get increasingly better and
even more binge-worthy, but we also got to watch our favorite group of young entertainers grow up!
According to Insider, Wolfhard claimed that as the cast aged,
the more exciting the seasons became. Wolfhard said of Season 4,
"It gets funnier, gets scarier, gets more dramatic. And I think that just comes with
all of us growing up and getting older. We're not all going to be in like mop-top wigs,
and we're like, 40 years old, like screaming about like, Demogorgons and stuff."
In the blink of an eye, Finn Wolfhard became one of the most well-known teenage actors
in Hollywood, largely in part to Netflix's Stranger Things. Since his grand entrance,
he has gone on to work on some massive projects with high-profile names in the industry.
His latest project is When You Finish Saving the World, which opened at the 2022 Sundance
Film Festival. Additionally, Wolfhard starred in other hit films, including Ghostbusters:
Afterlife, It and the sequel, and an animated remake of The Addams Family.
In fact, being in Ghostbusters was a pretty big deal to Wolfhard. In an interview with NME,
the young actor said that the original was a film that seemed to surround him as a child.
"My dad would quote it all the time. It was a huge part of growing up.
Being in the new one doesn't feel real, I still haven't figured it out yet."
When Finn Wolfhard isn't fighting demons in the Upside Down,
he can be found playing guitar with his band! Yup, that's right,
he's a singer and an actor! In 2020, Teen Vogue reported that Wolfhard launched a new band,
The Aubreys. The band released their first EP, Soda & Pie the same year. When announcing the
news of the band, Wolfhard posted to Instagram a screenshot of the Spotify list with the caption,
"It's out. Thank you to all of our friends who supported us during and
after we recorded this. We are so grateful."
Finn Wolfhard is a man of many talents, and as of 2019, he added modeling to his outstanding resume!
That year, Saint Laurent Creative Director Anthony Vaccarello
named Wolfhard as the brand's ambassador. Finn then went on to become the face of
the fashion line's Fall/Winter 2019-2020 campaign. Stranger Things fans naturally
went wild over the campaign in Instagram comments, and even Shawn Mendes commented.
Naturally, when we see characters who play love interests in a popular television show,
we immediately hope for them to be a couple in real life. In some cases, it's impossible
to think that they aren't already a couple when they have such great chemistry on set.
This was reported to happen almost instantly with Finn Wolfhard and co-star Millie Bobby Brown,
who plays the character of Eleven in Stranger Things. Though legions of
fans hoped that the two were dating, the two never confirmed if they were ever an item.
"A friend?"
"Someone like, uh.."
In 2019, Brown told E! News that the two have an easy friendship.
"It's in the scripts and we feel comfortable with each other, we feel trusted,
we're in a safe environment, so it's relatively easy. I think people hype it up to be awkward,
more awkward than it is, but it's just like your friend, so it's chill."
Celebrities over the years have come across certain fans who seem to take it a little too
far. Finn Wolfhard is just one young entertainer who has reportedly been stalked by an adult fan.
As a young adult trying to live their life as simply as possible,
that can be a pretty scary and uncomfortable situation. In 2020, Wolfhard told Mastermind
magazine about the moment he realized some overzealous fans were following him.
"When I was 13, some adults followed me back to my condo when I was shooting 'It.' [...] As
I walked faster, they walked faster, and I was getting a bit antsy by the time I got to the door.
Suddenly, they were like, 'Hey, dude, can we get a selfie?' And I was like,
'No you can't have a selfie! How about don't follow children?'"
Like most celebrities, crazy rumors can quickly spread, and thanks to social media,
information nowadays travels at the speed of light.
That's why when one particularly interesting rumor started spreading across Twitter about
Finn Wolfhard, the actor had to speak out and clear his name. Back in 2017, several reports
alleged that the Stranger Things actor drank water out of a bidet while visiting France.
According to Page Six, the rumor started after Wolfhard tweeted,
"Yo France just drank from your water fountain. Why is it in a toilet,
and why does [it] taste weird? #thewondersofeurope."
He continued with,
"Update just found out the toilet water fountain is called a bidet?? Stay tuned for more details."
He later shared a screenshot featuring the definition of a bidet and captioned it,
"Oh god."
"You know what, I’m disappointed in you Finn."
Naturally, this blew up online, and people began questioning whether or not he actually
drank from the bidet. When appearing on SiriusXM's Entertainment Weekly Radio, he cleared the air.
"I'm like, 'Do you actually think I would drink from a bidet?!' Like, it's in the toilet!"
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