Finn Wolfhard Explains His 'Deliberate' Decision to Stay Single, Spills on 'Stranger Things' Spinoff
Finn Wolfhard is dishing about Stranger Things and the single life!
The 22-year-old actor was interviewed for Variety‘s cover story.
For the article, published Tuesday (August 5), Finn opened up about his decision to stay single, how he maintains a sense of normalcy as a former child actor, and teased the Stranger Things spinoff series!
Keep reading to see what he had to say…
On the Stranger Things cast getting tattoos together:
“No one could agree what to get because everyone had different storylines, and the show meant different things to different people. Honestly, I think moving forward, we might still do it,” Finn told Variety, sharing that the cast members were torn between getting the date of the first episode or the Hawkins school mascot.
On choosing to stay single:
“I’m single and like…I feel like that’s something that I’m also kind of thinking about right now is just like…This is the time kind of where I have been doing the most work kind of in my life. So I feel like it’s been kind of…Maybe it’s been subconsciously — what’s the word? — deliberate? — to not have a committed partner. Just because I’m 22, I don’t really want to put my…Also considering how…At the rate that I’m traveling all the time and working and stuff, I just feel like it’s not the time to do that.”
On his idea for the Stranger Things spinoff – and what the co-creator says he got right:
“Like David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. Sort of an anthology and different tones but similar universe or same universe. I think set in different places and all tied together through this mythology of the Upside Down. Don’t even talk about Hawkins. Don’t have any mention of our characters. They were toying around with ideas in case Netflix wanted them. I’m sure they do, and I’m sure it will happen, but there’s nothing official. I think the coolest way, the way that I would do it, there has to be labs everywhere. If there was one in Hawkins, there’s one in Russia. Where else could they be?”
Series co-creator Ross Duffer said that Finn was the only person to guess what the Stranger Things spinoff would be. He said, ““Nobody — not Netflix, not any of the producers, not any of the directors, not any of the actors — nobody else has figured out what the spinoff is. Finn figured out, which is pretty remarkable. We’ve mind-melded with this kid a bit.”
On staying “normal” while growing up in Hollywood:
“At that time, my focus was on staying sort of as quote-unquote normal as I could be. I was never really a normal person — whatever normal is, whatever I thought that normal was. But I definitely was aware of how many child actors had it bad, how it ended up so bad.”
Check out Finn‘s full interview at Variety.com!