Brett Gelman Calls Working With ‘Stranger Things’ Costar Winona Ryder a ‘Complete Dream Come True’

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The perfect scene partner! While reflecting on filming season 4 of Stranger Things, Brett Gelman revealed that having Murray team up with Joyce — without Hopper — offered a unique professional highlight for him.“It was surreal not having David [Harbour] there.

At the same time, the positive side of that was getting to have all of this one-on-one time with one of my acting heroes [Winona Ryder],” Gelman, 45, exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the show’s return. “One of the people who taught me how to act by watching them as I was growing up.”The comedian noted that Ryder, 50, was an influential part of his own career, adding, “We are really close in age, but she was a famous movie star very early on.

So, I grew up watching her and being inspired by her. Getting to act with her and become friends with her and getting to know her more than I already had in season 3 was a complete dream come true for me.”Murray’s season 4 arc focuses on him reuniting with Joyce after she receives a message that Hopper may still be alive.

Throughout the first volume, which started streaming on Friday, May 27, the twosome travels to Alaska before making their way to a Russian labor camp where their friend ended up after the explosion in Starcourt Mall.According to Gelman, getting to play his eccentric character over the years taught him some important lessons. “Nothing is easy when you are doing anything.