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  • ‘Stranger Things’ Star Joe Keery’s Hair Won the First Week of Awards Shows

    Steve “Hair”-ington gets all the hair awards. (Sadly, Emma Roberts does not.)

    The 2018 film and TV awards season is officially in full swing. Last weekend was the Golden Globe Awards. Thursday night was the Critics Choice Awards. Next Sunday is the Screen Actors Guild Awards. And in the week after that, we get the Oscar nominations, with that broadcast airing on March 4.

    The young “Stranger Things” cast pretty much owned the Golden Globes red carpet, and that was without the help of their 20-something costars. On that front, Joe Keery (Steve Harrington) gave great hair at the Golden Globes after-parties, showing us what we missed in the pre-show.

    The 2018 InStyle And Warner Bros. 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards Post-Party - Red Carpet

    Warner Bros. Pictures And InStyle Host 19th Annual Post-Golden Globes Party - Arrivals

    Keery, Natalia Dyer (Nancy Wheeler), and Dacre Montgomery (Billy Hargrove) presented together at the Critics Choice Awards. They all brought their A-games to the red carpet:The 23rd Annual Critics' Choice Awards - Red Carpet

    The 23rd Annual Critics' Choice Awards - Red Carpet

    The 23rd Annual Critics' Choice Awards - Arrivals

    David Harbour (Chief Jim Hopper) is the one who actually won a Critics Choice Award for his role in Season 2. He seemed to have fun behind-the-scenes with his cast.Landmark Vineyards at the 23rd Annual Critics' Choice AwardsJoe Keery’s popularity skyrocketed after “Stranger Things” Season 2, and he talked to Bustle about the increase in attention. He also revealed how he’d prefer to interact with fans. Here’s that part of his Bustle profile:

    Not one for taking dozens of photos for photos’ sake (just look at his artsy Instagram feed, which he only updates a few times a month), Keery longs for a time when fans were actually trying to, well, just chat. “I think about Frank Sinatra — sure, he took some photos, but if he’s just walking by in public or something, or like eating at a restaurant, there wouldn’t be people trying to take a photo. It would be people trying to meet you.”

    “I would much rather sit down and like talk to someone and be like, ‘No, I don’t really want to take a photo because I just got off a plane,’” he adds. “I would much rather say, ‘What’s your name? And where [are] you from?’ and talk to somebody.”

    The “Stranger Things” cast may not have much time left to talk to fans. They will gather Sunday, January 21 at the Screen Actors Guild Awards to defend their title; they won the big Best Ensemble in a Drama Series award last year and they’re nominated again this year.

    David Harbour recently said Season 3 may start filming in March or April, for a 2019 premiere on Netflix, but there are no solid dates yet.

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  • David Harbour Wants ‘a Hopper & Steve Get-Together’ in ‘Stranger Things’ Season 3

    Entertainment Weekly Hosts Its Annual Comic-Con Party At FLOAT At The Hard Rock Hotel In San Diego In Celebration Of Comic-Con 2Steve + Hopper = Nancy, who?

    Everyone wants to board the Steve Harrington train after “Stranger Things” Season 2. The Duffer Brothers gave a major showcase to Joe Keery’s Steve, who had a great partnership with Gaten Matarazzo’s Dustin. David Harbour recently earned Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for playing Chief Jim Hopper, and he told Variety he’d love Hopper to have scenes with Steve and Dustin, in addition to his time with Winona Ryder’s Joyce. Plus, he wants to delve deeper into Hopper’s backstory.

    These are just hopes, though, because Harbour told Variety he has no idea what’s going to happen in “Stranger Things” Season 3. Even if he did know, he’s “not allowed to talk to you about anything. Because I’m always the person that gets in trouble. But they haven’t told me anything. I think I’ll be in it though, that’s all I know.” (Speaking of things he’s “not supposed to comment on,” don’t ask him about the stairwell.)

    Here’s what David Harbour told Variety he wants to see happen in Season 3:

    “I’ve been pretty vocal about how I love the dynamic between Joyce and Hopper, which I don’t feel like we got a lot of time to explore in Season 2. I just love that dynamic of these two lost people. I equate it to Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway in “‘Chinatown’ or Indiana Jones and Marion in ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark.’ These great, throwback, they hate each other but love each other kind of tropes. It’s done so sophisticatedly by the Duffers, and Winona is really game for it, too. We love playing scenes with each other. I would love more stuff with her.

    That’s a feasible one — and then there’s stuff that I don’t think is feasible, but I do think the internet knows my love for Joe Keery. I would love to see a Hopper and Steve get-together, but I seriously doubt that’s going to happen.

    I’d love to work with Gaten. I want to get into the backstory of Hopper more. When Eleven goes into the basement, she sees a bunch of boxes, one of which says ‘Hawkins Lab.’ ‘Dad.’ ‘Vietnam.’ ‘New York.’ There’s a lot of story we can get into around Hopper’s time as a cop in New York, Hopper’s time in Vietnam. I would love to see more of that, but we have a ton of great characters, so I don’t know how much they’ll be able to do.”

    Harbour added that there’s “a lot of timeline stuff to explain” when it comes to Hopper’s daughter Sara.

    “Sara dies theoretically five years before our story. In terms of the timeline, we say in the first season that I moved back to Hawkins after that experience. And we have me calling my ex-wife, who is remarried and has a kid. There’s a lot of rich material there, and with secrets around Sara and that whole event, which I hope we’ll get into in future seasons. Maybe not in the way you think. But there is a lot more complexity to Hopper’s relationship to Sara’s death. I would love to see them go further into that.”

    Yes, please. That does seem like a reasonable hope, considering all of the backstory seeds planted in the first two seasons. And it doesn’t seem out of the question for Hopper and Steve to team up, considering Steve has taken on a leadership role in taking care of the kids, and Hopper has done the same for Eleven/Jane. Steve could even end up joining the Hawkins police force. Would that be crazy?

    “Stranger Things 3” has no release date yet, they haven’t even started filming, but Harbour suspects it won’t premiere until 2019.

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  • ‘Stranger Things 2’ Fans Are Obsessed With ‘Single Mom’ Steve Harrington

    Stranger ThingsWho knew that Steve Harrington — Steve Harrington! — would become the new fan favorite hero?

    “Stranger Things” Season 2 just debuted last weekend, and fans have thoughts about everyone and everything. But one thing pretty much everyone can agree on is that Season 1’s two-dimensional cool kid stereotype Steve Harrington (Joe Keery) found himself a warm, welcome, wonderful third-dimension this year.

    SPOILERS AHEAD ON SEASON 2

    Steve basically got dumped by drunk Nancy (Natalia Dyer) as she realized she wanted to be with Jonathan Byers (Charlie Heaton). Steve did not go emo (that wasn’t even a thing in the ’80s) or try to get revenge. Instead, he showed how much he still cares about Nancy, and is still just a good guy in general, by helping her little brother Mike and his friends.

    Steve became the new babysitter, like Mr. Mom with a Negan-and-Lucille spiked bat. He especially bonded with Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) giving him tips on girls and hairs, as they both grieved for lost love.

    The producers told The Hollywood Reporter they knew they loved Joe Keery and wanted to bring him back in a big way but weren’t sure how to utilize him once Nancy moved on.

    As Shawn Levy put it:

    “The storyline of Steve Harrington in the second half of Season 2 was completely unanticipated in the outlines for this season. That was the Duffer Brothers reacting to what they were seeing in the first couple of episodes, and having the audacity to say, ‘You know what? We have a better idea. We’re going to completely change the game plan for episodes five through nine.’ […]

    It came from a place of not wanting Joe Keery to play the sad sack beat for nine episodes. What’s the scenario we can put Steve in to once again surprise us and once again step up in a way that a stereotypical character wouldn’t? That led to the Steve and Dustin alliance, which led to such incredible character work and moments for the second half of the season.”

    Ross Duffer added to THR:

    “We were in the middle of writing the season when we realized Dustin was also all alone. He was also about to suffer from this heartbreak [in the love triangle with Sadie Sink’s Max and Caleb McLaughlin’s Lucas]. We realized Steve was also suffering from heartbreak. It was very much in the middle of the season — we’re talking about months into the writing — that we decided to put these two characters together. The second we started writing it, we got really excited about the possibilities. What Joe and Gaten did exceeded our expectations. Their bromance, for us, is one of the highlights this season.”

    Gaten Matarazzo told THR he basically feels the same way about Joe as Dustin does about Steve:

    “I love Joe so much. For me to get to work with him so much this season? It was amazing. He’s such a great guy, and he really is a great actor. He’s very passionate about what he does. I look up to him in a way like that. He’s kind of like a big brother to me.”

    Fans love him, too:

    Same.

    “Stranger Things” Seasons 1 and 2 are now streaming on Netflix. Season 3 will presumably arrive next year.

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