It was the morning after Finn Wolfhard shot his final Stranger Things scene. He and his castmates had stayed up, hanging out on set all night, soaking in what might be their last time together for months. Now it was time to drive home, and Finn's heart felt like it was sinking. The show he'd spent 10 years of his life on—nearly half of his total years on this planet—was truly over. He asked himself the question you have while going through a breakup, because that's what this felt like: Is this going to last forever, this horrible hole inside me?
Thankfully, his costar Sadie Sink was there. She told him to give it a week; he'd be fine. Probably.
Today, you'd assume the 22-year-old is just that, fine, if his IMDb and Instagram are any indication. His feature film directorial debut, Hell of a Summer, hit theaters on April 4. The A24 film he starred in, The Legend of Ochi, came out on April 18. Finn's debut solo album, the indie rock Happy Birthday, packed with yearning, nostalgia, and romance-coded lyrics, comes out June 6.
And that's just the stuff he was able to accomplish while wrapping up Stranger Things, the five-season juggernaut that made him famous and begins its final run later this year. He and his core costars started as a group of prepubescent kids with barely any onscreen experience. In Finn's viral audition tape, he adorably introduces himself to the camera by saying he's "sick, late, 4 foot 11, and 12 years old." Now, they're all 20-somethings with a combined Instagram following of 160 million. They attend the Met Gala. Their weddings are featured in Vogue. There's a Stranger Things play on Broadway. Kids dress as Finn's character, Mike Wheeler, for Halloween. "The best thing I can compare it to is Harry Potter," Finn says, sitting across from me, drinking tea at the Park Lane hotel in New York City. Like the stars of that franchise, he and his castmates grew up in the public eye, becoming cultural touchstones for entire generations.
That's both a blessing and a curse, as most child stars would tell you. |
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