David Harbour Doesn’t Want Fans Yelling ‘Hopper’ at Him for the ‘Rest of My Life’: ‘I Want to Make Original Movies That Go to the Movie Theaters’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director David Harbour is back in theaters this month opposite Orlando Bloom in Sony’s “Gran Turismo,” but he’s well aware the public will continue to recognize him for his role as Hopper on Netflix’s blockbuster series “Stranger Things.” With the fifth and final season of the show still left to film once the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are resolved, Harbour told Insider that he’s fully planning on acting in films exclusively once “Stranger Things” wrapped.
Harbour had a strong run as a character actor in films such as “Brokeback Mountain” and “Revolutionary Road” before his star profile exploded with the success of “Stranger Things.” His first attempt to parlay the success of “Stranger Things” into a movie career failed thanks to the box office bomb that was “Hellboy,” but he got things back on track with Marvel’s “Black Widow” and Universal’s “Violent Night,” a modestly-budgeted original action comedy that turned a profit. “I’ve been on Netflix, but this was a small original movie that’s going to a cinema,” Harbour said about “Violent Night” succeeding. “A whole new world opened up for me with that.
I like this playing field. I want to make original movies that go to the movie theaters.” Movies will be Harbour’s primary focus after “Stranger Things” wraps as he works to shed his “Stranger Things” image from the public eye. “I think about that a lot,” Harbour said of “one day being associated with more than just the character that made him a star,” Insider reports. “It’s a funny position I’m in, which I never thought I would be in,” Harbour said.
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