Charlie Heaton is sad that the superhit sci-fi horror series “Stranger Things” has come to an end!
The 31-year-old actor starred as Jonathan Byers in all five seasons of the hit Netflix series since its debut in 2016.
In a latest interview, Heaton reflected on his final day on the set of the show. “It’ll will forever live in my memory,” he said of filming season 5 scenes for the emotional series finale. “Just gratitude for the people that I was working with. Love, not gratitude. It’s really rare.”
Heaton recalled, “You’re always looking for the truth in a scene, and you’re always looking to have these relationships. And that last day on set, the things we were shooting, it was just real honesty.”
In the show finale, Heaton’s Jonathan moves to New York City to pursue filmmaking at NYU and to work on an anti-capitalist cannibal movie. Steve stays in Hawkins to become a Little League coach, Nancy drops out of Emerson College to take a job at The Herald in Boston, and Robin attends Smith College.
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At the end, the foursome promises to keep in touch and cheers each other.
“I’m sad to say goodbye. It was a really special experience,” Heaton said.
In an earlier interview, show creators Matt and Ross Duffer elaborated on the ending for Heaton’s character.
“We set up that he’s been wanting to go to NYU for a very long time. That’s all the way back to season 1. So, it made us happy to see him finally realise his dream,” Ross explained.
Matt added, “The teens had called us the day before we were going to shoot that scene. I think Charlie, in particular, wanted some more specifics about what he was doing at NYU, so we all worked together to cook up this movie idea.”
“Even on that day, we kept elaborating on what this movie is. The movie we made at film school in college was not an anti-capitalist movie, but it was a cannibal movie about a shape-shifting cannibal, so that was the idea behind that,” Matt said of what inspired the premise of Jonathan’s film project in “Stranger Things”.
While “Stranger Things” is currently streaming on Netflix, Heaton will next be seen in “Industry” season 4, which premiered this Sunday on HBO and HBO Max.
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