Stranger Things is afraid of making a Game of Thrones: “Their final season was dismantled!”

Finn Wolfhard says he was particularly stressed and even had a panic attack during filming…

A few weeks before the launch of the final season of Stranger Things, young actor Finn Wolfhard confides to Time Magazine how the pressure to conclude the series is enormous. Everyone has in mind the big series that missed their landing, like Game of Thrones:

“We all saw how Game of Thrones was dismantled at the end. We sincerely hope we don’t experience the same thing. That was really the biggest worry between us. But when we read the scripts, we knew it was something special.”

The interpreter of Mike Wheeler admits to being particularly anxious, in general, and remembers having experienced a particularly difficult moment during the filming of season 4. The young actor suffered from a panic attack faced with the pressure of fame and the intensity of the fandom of the series.

“It’s just a symptom of how chaotic filming can be! When you’re a kid, you try to make things easy for everyone. You don’t know how to say you need a break… It was incredible, but also terrifying, to suddenly find yourself recognized everywhere.”

During filming, the combination of pressure, post-Covid protocols and his “first personal relationship worries” led to an episode of hyperventilation in the middle of the scene:

“It was a bit like being in an aquarium, because a lot of the extras were also fans. It ended in a panic attack.”

His partners Caleb McLaughlin and Gaten Matarazzo then took him aside to reassure him: “They told me they felt the same pressure,” confides Wolfhard.

Yes, there is a lot of pressure around Stranger Things, especially as the final season approaches.