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With the countdown officially on for the fifth and final season of "Stranger Things," [2] David Harbour, who plays Sheriff Jim Hopper, is already making suggestions for more Hawkins mayhem. "Stranger Things [3]" creators Matt and Ross Duffer have confirmed a spinoff will happen [4] in the future, although they did say it would be "different than what anyone is expecting" in an interview with Variety [5].
With no news on which characters the spinoff might include, Harbour has some thoughts. In an interview with GQ [6], the 47-year-old said: "At this point, I think Hopper is a character that can exist independent of me. If they wanna go back in time, forward in time . . . I'd love to see another actor play Hopper, and see what they can bring to it."
And who will that actor be? Harbour's top pick is "Euphoria [7]"'s Jacob Elordi [8], who plays Nate Jacobs. "He could pull off being as handsome as I was at 20," Harbour revealed. Now that is a performance we'd like to see.
Harbour also dropped some insight into when we might get to see season five, revealing: "I think we'll [shoot] next year. They're finishing writing it this year, and they need to prep and stuff, so hopefully it'll be this year," Harbour said. "But I think that's the plan. So it'd probably come out mid-2024, based on our track record." So, only two years to wait, then. We'll be listening to Kate Bush songs [9] on repeat until then . . .
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Aside from the phenomenon that is "Stranger Things," Harbour spoke candidly of his relationship with Lily Allen [11]. The couple, who married in an intimate Las Vegas ceremony [12] in September 2020, met on celebrity dating app Raya. After texting each other, the pair went on a date at The Wolseley, a fancy London restaurant, when he realized she was "f*cking unbelievable."
And he even remembers the exact moment he fell in love with her. After joking that Allen [13] claims she fell in love with him at first sight, it was date three that Harbour was struck with Cupid's arrow. "I was just in this phase, where I was like, 'I'm just going to be brutally honest about everything, because why lie?' And I told her something about my life, about my beliefs . . . " he explained. "It would take a really extraordinary person to be accepting of the things that I said. And I remember thinking: 'Wow, that's somebody I want to be around.'"