Stranger Things.The actor, 17, was planning to change direction after he lost a role in an unnamed film. He then set his sights set on becoming a director.In an interview with The Observer, Wolfhard recalls his first audition for Stranger Things, revealing that he almost didn’t send over an audition tape because he’d resigned himself to a career off camera.
He said he was “sick in bed and almost considering not even acting” at the time.Luckily he did send a tape to the show’s creators, Matt and Ross Duffer, who eventually gave him the part of Mike Wheeler, the de-facto leader of the show’s central child/teenaged characters.Wolfhard said no one expected the show to “blow up” overnight. “We just thought we were filming this secret thing that.
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