"Shooting Stars" Actor Caleb McLaughlin Actually Got His Start in a Disney Broadway Fave

McLaughlin was still performing in Signature Theatre's production of "The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek" when he got the audition for Lucas in "Stranger Things." "I remember auditioning for a whole bunch of series that I didn't get. I kept getting rejected," he told Backstage in 2020. He was still upset about the rejection when he made his decision to keep trying. "I was about to tell my mom I didn't want to audition for this, but then I was like, 'You know what? I'll do it because this is what I wanna do. I wanna act.'"