THR also has word that both Joe Kerry and Noah Schnapp have been promoted to series regulars for Stranger Thingsseason 2, so expect a lot more of Steve Harrington and Will Byers this time around! “The evil in the real world is often as bad or worse than the supernatural evil, so we wanted to introduce a character like that.” “Stephen King always has really great human villains,” they said. Montgomery’s Billy isn’t exactly the nicest guy, according to the Duffer brothers. He steals girlfriends away from their boyfriends, is great at drinking games and drives a black Camaro. But lurking under his apparent charisma, is a violent and unpredictable nature.” Compounding her contemporaneous rebellion against gender norms, Max will also apparently get around town on a skateboard.ĭacre Montgomery will play Billy, “Max’s hyper-confident and edgy older step-brother. Interestingly enough, with the recent Season 2 teaser trailer rolling out a list of the episode names, the title “Madmax” seemingly makes more sense in light of this revelation. Sadie Sink will play Max, “a tough and confident girl whose appearance, behavior and pursuits seem more typical of boys than of girls in this era. She has a complicated history and is generally suspicious of those around her.” One has to wonder if the cold case could in fact involve Barb? It’d be nice to see if someone finally cared to discover what happened to her. Gelman, who most recently appeared in Fleabag and Brett Gelman’s Dinner in America, will being playing Murray Bauman in Stranger Things, a disgraced journalist turned conspiracy theorist who finds himself investigating a cold case in the show’s central Indiana town. Shortly after severing ties with Adult Swim in a very public and acrimonious way- accusing the network of alleged misogyny and supporting shows that appeal to alt-right, white nationalism- Variety reports that Brian Gelman will be making the jump to Netflix by joining Stranger Things season 2. Although she does not live in Hawkins, she is mysteriously connected to the supernatural events at the lab.” Is that “great loss” linked to The Upside Down? Who knows. Linnea Berthelsen is Roman, “ an emotionally damaged, magnetic young woman who suffered a great loss as a child. “I think part of what they were tickled by was, to whatever extent people know me from Aliens, they’re automatically going, ‘Oh this guy is no good.’ I don’t know where they’re going with it but it’s a fun thing to play.” “ To be honest, I’ve only read a few of the scripts so I still don’t know and I’m not sure they know,” he told EW.
Reiser himself is keeping quiet on whether or not he’s a hero or villain in this. “Paul was saying the reason James Cameron cast him is because he thought people would inherently trust him and it would be a twist.”
“We want people to have those debates like, ‘Do you trust that guy or is he Burke?’” Ross Duffer said. Owens, “ a high-ranking member within the Department of Energy on a ‘clean-up’ assignment who is tasked with containing the events of last year.” Now, casting Paul Reiser in a role in an ’80s throwback is immediately going to bring comparisons to his role in Aliens, and according to Entertainment Weekly, that was the plan all along.