Very similar to how audiences do not know what to anticipate subsequent in Stranger Issues, even lots of the sequence’ stars do not know what is going to occur to their characters, but when issues have been as much as Maya Hawke, she at the least hopes her character will get to kiss somebody in Season 5. Robin was launched in Season 3 and had immense quantities of chemistry with Joe Keery’s Steve, main some to assume they might have a love connection, just for her to disclose she was homosexual late within the season. Season 4 provided up a lady for Robin to have a crush on, however the emotions have been seemingly unrequited.
“I belief the [creators the Duffer] brothers a lot,” Hawke shared with NME. “If I used to be a author and my actors have been at all times going within the press speaking about what they thought I ought to do with the character, I would be like, ‘Uh, I received this?’ So I belief them fully to have an amazing story arc for Robin.”
She did level out, “I hope she will get to kiss any individual — any individual she likes. That might be cool for her.”
Early on in Season 4, Robin revealed that she did have a crush on Vickie (Amybeth McNulty), a fellow member of the highschool band. As soon as Robin received caught up in all the unsettling adventures that unfolded this season, she needed to put her curiosity in Vickie by the wayside. Her hopes have been dashed when she noticed Vickie kissing her boyfriend late within the season, however the season finale concluded with the pair making sandwiches collectively and Vickie admitting that she was newly single. It is unclear if there will likely be a love connection between them, however Hawke is definitely hoping there’s romance in Robin’s future.
Robin’s crush wasn’t the one romantic reveal in Season 4, because it additionally noticed Will (Noah Schnapp) making an emotional confession about how “Eleven” felt about Mike (Finn Wolfhard), just for this to be a thinly veiled guise for Will to vent his personal emotions. Because the episode’s debut, Schnapp has set the file straight on his character’s intentions.
“Clearly, it was hinted at in Season 1: It was at all times form of there, however you by no means actually knew, is it simply him rising up slower than his associates? Now that he is gotten older, they made it a really actual, apparent factor,” Schnapp defined to Selection. “Now it is 100% clear that he’s homosexual and he does love Mike. However earlier than, it was a sluggish arc. I feel it’s carried out so fantastically, as a result of it is really easy to make a personality identical to unexpectedly be homosexual. Individuals have come as much as me — I used to be simply in Paris and this, like, 40-year-old man got here as much as me and he was like, ‘Wow, this Will character made me really feel so good. And I associated to it a lot. That’s precisely who I used to be once I was a child.’ That simply made me so joyful to listen to. They’re penning this actual character and this actual journey and actual wrestle and so they’re doing it so effectively.”
Keep tuned for particulars on Season 5 of Stranger Issues.
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