David Harbour On Approaching Ryan Reynolds For Career Advice & The ‘Euphoria’ Actor He’d Want To Play A Young Hopper In ‘Stranger Things’ Spin-Off

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David Harbour has shared that he turned to Ryan Reynolds after finding a flop on his hands in 2019’s Hellboy, also touching on a casting idea for Stranger Things‘ spin-off series in a recent interview with GQ.Harbour noted in the piece published Monday that he approached Reynolds for advice given his own famous experience with failure, via the 2011 Warner Bros.

pic Green Lantern.“I know [Ryan] a little bit. I called him and I was like, Hey man, I just need to know something. You know ‘Green Lantern?’ Huge flop for you,” the actor recalled. “What the f**k is that like, because I think I’m going to hit that right now.

Am I gonna be okay? Am I gonna survive this?”Neil Marshall’s superhero film starring Harbour rebooted Guillermo del Toro’s franchise, which was itself based on the Dark Horse comics, grossing just over $55M worldwide against a budget of 50M.

Green Lantern, meanwhile, grossed just under $220M at a $200M budget.While Harbour didn’t get specific as to the advice he received from Reynolds, he shared that the actor was “sweet” to him, before touching on the Stranger Things spin-off series previously announced by the show’s creators, the Duffer Brothers.