Stranger Things' David Harbour on the Craziest Day of His Entire Career

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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David Harbour is currently starring on the Netflix blockbuster hit Stranger Things. He plays Police Chief Jim Hopper, initially tasked with searching for a missing child in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana. Every season, the show gets a bit more paranormal and tense, so we asked David if he had any on-set stories that stick out in his mind. To nobody's surprise, he tells us a bonkers story from season one of Stranger Things.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.3	I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.
0:22.3	It goes by many names.
0:24.0	The biz, the industry, hotly weird.
0:27.8	If you're lucky enough to work in pop culture, odds are you've seen a thing or two.
0:32.4	So on Bullseye, we decided to carve out space for guests to share their wildest, craziest
0:38.2	stories from their work lives.
0:40.4	We call it the craziest day of my entire career.
0:45.0	On deck this week is David Harbour.
0:47.4	He's an actor.
0:48.5	He starred as the title character in the most recent Hellboy film.
0:52.1	He's had parts in movies like Black Mass, Suicide Squad, Brokeback Mountain, and many,
0:57.1	many others.
0:58.1	But odds are if you know David Harbour, you know him best from his role on Stranger Things.
1:05.0	That is, and I'm taking a look here at Show Business Magazine, the biggest thing on television
1:09.9	right now.
1:11.7	It's set in the 1980s in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana.
1:16.2	Harbour plays Jim Hopper, the town's police chief.
1:20.2	Not everything is as it seems.
1:22.5	In Hawkins.
1:23.8	Hopper gets thrown into the middle of it when young will buyers go missing.
1:28.0	Hopper offers to join the kid's mom, Joyce, in the search.
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