David Harbour Says Stranger Things Season 3 Will Be Weirder

In an interview with Vanity Fair, David Harbour spoke about the upcoming third season of Stranger Things, which he said will be “weirder” than the last two. Here are highlights:

On what’s new for Hopper in season three: “Yeah. The great thing about this show is, we throw out the model every season. Season 1 was a very Stephen King thing, and then Season 2 came along and I feel like we did something very different. Maintaining the same elements, but it was very different. Much bigger and Spielberg-y . . . like putting Hopper and Eleven together is a weird thing to do after Season 1. I think we do some even weirder stuff in Season 3. I think it’s always about pushing the envelope.”

On a possible romance for Hopper: “Here’s the thing. I do think it is the one thing that he doesn’t have. The great thing about Season 1 was that he was messing around with all these young, emotionally unavailable women, like the librarian. He couldn’t be vulnerable with a woman on an adult level. Then, in Season 2 he gets to relive his fatherhood experiences and really understand how to care for a child. We’ve seen him kind of as a dad and as a cop, and we haven’t seen him as sort of a man, in terms of having a real equal woman to tangle with. I would like to see that.”

On Hellboy: “I am playing Hellboy. We wrapped [Season 2 of Stranger Things] in, I think, May or June of last year. Then I had the summer off, and then I went to Bulgaria in late August and started shooting Hellboy. . . . It’s a classically complicated hero. He’s a creature that was meant to bring about the end of the world, and he just sort of wants to be a good guy. He’s got that complexity to him. He’s also a monster who lives among human beings, so he’s in a sense fighting for human beings against his fellow monsters, and yet the humans hate him because they fear him and they think he’s weird looking and everything.”