Happy Saturday, my fellow strangers! It’s Mrs. Strange back again! On today’s episode
for Stranger Universe, I will talk about a new interview for Stranger Things season 4,
featuring one of the new actors joining the show.
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We also want to give a special thanks to Whitney Danhauer from the website “Showbiz CheatSheet”
for conducting this interview. On March 23rd, among the chaotic revelation of the new stills
for Stranger Things 4, we got another casting announcement from the Hollywood Reporter:
Logan Riley Bruner will play the new character, Fred Benson. According to the leaked character
descriptions, Fred checks all the boxes of the stereotypical 80’s nerd. The bespectacled
Fred, despite being nerdy, is clever and is pursuing his passion: journalism. Given all
the strange events that have taken place in Hawkins and the proximity of the series leads
to all of them, we’ll see if Fred does more harm than good once he starts digging around.
When asked about his role in season 4, Benson said “That’s what I got. I got, ‘He’s
a journalist.’ There’s a lot of little things that I would love to be able to talk
about, but I feel like all of it, just like dances so close to the line. I want people
to be excited by figuring out where he fits into the equation.”
The website also asked Bruner about the tone of the season and the fact that the cast is
getting older, which has been a point of controversy, with many viewers feeling like the magic is
gone and the “kids” are too old now. However, Bruner feels more positive about the aging
cast. “I’m really excited about the fact that the show is growing with its characters.
That’s one of the things that I really love about long-term TV is watching shows that
are able to kind of morph and allow their characters to grow and grow up. So I think
I think there’s a lot of that. And I think we’ve seen it in the trailers. But just
like all of them starting high school, there’s that feeling of newness, rebirth, and rediscovery.” While
I understand where he is coming from, what bothers me a bit is how they had a lot of
time to write in a time jump between seasons 3 and 4, especially with the pandemic. As
it stands, Stranger Things 4 picks up only 6 months after Stranger Things 3, even though
there are 3 years in between seasons, and a lot of cast members definitely aged. I feel
like they should’ve pushed back the setting a year to the spring of 1987, not just so
our kids and teens are closer in age to the actors playing them, but to make the ending
of season 3 feel more impactful. We could’ve seen the long term ramifications of the Battle
of Starcourt, and the longer period of time passing from season to season would have felt
similar to that of the gap in between seasons in real life. Logan Riley Bruner was also
asked about the Demobats and Demospiders, and his response was very interesting. “Oh,
wouldn’t that be exciting and terrifying? Because spiders are horrifying? I can’t
say anything about Demospiders. I can neither confirm nor deny Demobats. It’s so fun.”
We can’t wait to see what type of role Fred will have in this upcoming season. Earlier
today, we got a Saturday morning cartoon focusing on season 3, and it got me to realize that
we are close to seeing more content exclusively from season 4, based on the trend of cartoon
videos. We already two cartoons each for seasons 1 and 2, and now we’re starting the cartoons
for season 3. I’m assuming that after next Saturday, we will see cartoons for season
4 or something else entirely. To wrap it up, the panel that the Duffers and Winona Ryder
will be hosting at Deadline’s Contenders Television event will be tomorrow at 10:57
AM Pacific Time. Interestingly enough, it will last 15 minutes long, which makes me
wonder if they will show something major for those attending the event. Will they show
the trailer for season 4? We shall see. Overall, very exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today. What did you think about this new interview for
Stranger Things 4?
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