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Stranger Things’ David Harbour admits he once tore his Achilles while portraying Achilles in a production at New York City’s Shakespeare in the Park.
Stranger Things actor David Harbour shared in a new interview that he once tore his Achilles — while portraying Achilles in a Shakespeare in the Park production.
During a New York Comic Con panel attended by CBR, Harbour was recalling his experience filming Season 1 of the hit Netflix series when he revealed that he had flown back to New York City to perform in a play after filming wrapped down in Atlanta.
“…I came back to New York and I did Troilus and Cressida in the park, this very obscure Shakespeare play about the Trojan War and I played Achilles,” the actor said. “And I only did like six performances because I tore my Achilles tendon during the show, but I remember the show came out, we opened on Friday night. Friday night, the night the show came out.”
Harbour added that, after Season 1 dropped on Netflix, fans of the show immediately started recognizing him, noting, “And Saturday night, like, 10 people were there waiting for me after the show, just kind of like, ‘Oh my God, we saw you in this show.'”
“And then Sunday night, we did the show and there was about 50 people after the show. It was like, ‘What the hell is going on?'” Harbour continued. “And then the next week there was like hundreds of people, and it was crazy. And then I tore my Achilles tendon, thankfully. I was laid out for a while so people couldn’t find me, which was nice which is what I needed. But, yeah, I was doing that show when, when the show came out.”
Harbour has portrayed former Hawkins Police Sheriff Jim Hopper since Season 1 of Stranger Things but confirmed in several recent interviews that Season 4 will be Hopper’s biggest season yet. In fact, the actor shared during the same New York Comic Con panel that the fourth season will see Hopper getting his “Gandalf the White moment.”
“So in a sense, I mean, even this embryonic haircut that I have is… there’s a rebirth in him this season and a coming to terms with this toxicity that he’s carrying around, this trauma really, which is where it comes from,” Harbour said. “And him struggling with that and you’ll get to see a lot more, specifically, of what those traumas were, which I’ve always wanted to get into each of those cardboard boxes in the attic, you know, about Dad, Vietnam… you’ll see a lot more.”
Stranger Things Season 4 arrives on Netflix in 2022.
Source: New York Comic Con
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