Emily Longeretta SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched Season 4 of “Stranger Things,” now streaming on Netflix.For those who got used to seeing David Harbour as Jim Hopper, a lazy police officer in Hawkins, Indiana, the new episodes of “Stranger Things” may catch you off guard — and that was his point.
After three seasons of playing “fat dad Hopper,” Harbour was ready for something different.The actor was excited to dive into the darker side of the character and how he was feeling about the trauma in his past.
During Season 4’s fifth episode, he has a long monologue with the guard-turned-prisoner who tried to help him out and got caught.
In the speech, during which Hopper details the pain of losing his daughter, he also says that he views himself as a “curse” and feels responsible for everything bad that has happened to El (Millie Bobby Brown) and Joyce (Winona Ryder). “Everyone I love, I hurt,” he says through tears.
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