Winona Ryder has lamented the fact that her young Stranger Things co-stars were unable to identify a vinyl record.The actor, who plays Joyce Byers on the Netflix show, revealed in an interview with Esquire that during the filming of the first season, she held up an LP, only to be confronted by blank, quizzical expressions from Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Gaten Matarazzo and Caleb McLaughlin, who were all aged 14 or under at the time.“I cried,” Ryder said.To celebrate the halfway mark of filming Stranger Things 5 — and 8 years of Stranger Things! — we have a very special look at the making of the final season.
pic.twitter.com/HH6yVgzLRA— Netflix (@netflix) July 15, 2024“I just think that social media has changed everything, and I know I sound old.
I’m very aware of that,” she added. “And part of me thinks, ‘Gosh, am I like vaudeville at this point?’ Like [elderly lady voice], ‘Hey, kids, turn down the music!’”“I just think there was such an abundance: the history of film, the history of photography, it’s so rich, and there’s so much there, and I don’t mean we should go backwards, but I wish and I hope that the younger generation will study that.”It is not the only time that Ryder has made comments about the new generation’s relationship with media in the last week, after she said recently that young people aren’t interested in movies because of their excessive length.“I don’t mean to sound so hopeless,” she explained. “There are a few that are just not interested in movies.
Like, the first thing they say is, ‘How long is it?’”The actress is currently promoting Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the follow-up to the 1988 cult classic, which comes out in cinemas tomorrow (September 4).
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