Spoiler ahead for the flight. 1 of Strange things Season 4 is ahead.
The fourth season of Strange things shot with more distance between characters than ever, which was particularly bad news for Hopper. All of his friends thought he died when he was actually trapped in a Russian prison, having escaped certain death through the gate just before it closed in the Season 3 finale. From Season 4, they were clearly hard on Hopper because he looked so different. , and not just for the shaved head. Strange things prosthetic makeup artist Barrie Gower discussed how the show handled actor David Harbor’s physical changes when it came to shooting the flashbacks.
Episode 2 began with a flashback of the season 3 finale to reveal how Hopper survived, and as he leapt through the door before it closed and ended up in Russia was the speculation. Popular with fans, season 4 is continued and showed it. . Where the flashbacks got complicated was the fact that David Harbor lost weight to show how far Hopper had come. Barrie Gower spoke to Gossipify about the work he and the prosthetic team at makeup effects company BGFX did for the show, sharing how they transformed the season 4 Hopper trimmer into the season 3 Hopper:
We also had the chance to come up with the characters, because we worked with David Harbor. There are flashbacks from Season 3, with his character, Hopper. David, due to his story this season, is now in a Russian prison, and has actually lost a lot of weight for the role, so he would look thinner and thinner. So when it’s time to shoot all the flashbacks of season 3, and that’s Hopper at the end of season 3, where he goes through the door to the Upside Down and there’s the explosion, when we get back to him climbing the charts and he’s trapped from the Russians, she wears heavy makeup, which we designed to make David fat.
Time Strange things he used a stunt double for some scenes For the flashback version of Eleven that couldn’t be played by Millie Bobby Brown, the prosthetic makeup team designed the makeup to add weight to David Harbor so that he could look like Season 3’s Hopper again. a life of luxury compared to Season 4’s Hopper, who struggles in the snow as a Soviet prisoner, and the actor’s physical transformation reflects that. Barry Gower (che working with Nightmare on via Elm by Robert Englund on his Victor Creel prostheses ) has continued:
When he is first taken to the Russian prison and interrogated, it is David who is wearing our heavy makeup. He so he has a full face just to give her a rounder jaw and a fuller face which is really a messy and hard makeup to do because obviously it had to be perfect on his face and we had nowhere to hide. So Stranger Things for was a real mix of amazing makeup opportunities and achievements for us.
Seeing exactly how Hopper survived the explosion in the Season 3 finale and ended up in Russia was a long-awaited revelation. from Strange things confirmed the character’s survival until early 2020, so the flashbacks could be even more scrutinized than the other scenes in season 4. When I noticed he was so into the trick that I wondered if the flashbacks were shot during the season 3 finale, Barrie Gower shared:
This was one of the conversations we had with David! They raised it towards the end of Season 3 and said, “No, don’t worry, we’ll fix it next time.” I don’t think they realized … David lost so much weight and he was so skinny in season 4. So I think they were in a situation like, “How are we going to do this? We were very lucky to have been invited to do that. this trick because it was a great opportunity.
Kudos to David Harbor for going out of his way to really sell how hard life has been for Hopper since his accidental arrival in the Soviet Union. He was the only familiar face in Russian prison history for much of the escape. 1 before Joyce and Murray came along, so he had to work a lot as an actor with his acting and overall appearance. Luckily for Hopper, he was finally rescued at the end of the first batch of episodes of Season 4, but the question of going home remains.
Even with Vecna ​​(which Barrie Gower confirmed was inspired by game of Thrones night king ) wreaking havoc on Hawkins while Eleven is back with Brenner, her and Joyce’s homecoming (if it happens in season 4) can send them into a whole new mess. The future looks pretty bleak for everyone Strange things characters, but that means volume 2 looks pretty exciting for Netflix subscribers !
More Vecna ​​victims may be on the way (senior sound effects editor Angelo Palazzo has revealed sources of bone popping and wet noises of Vecna’s death), then mark the release of Strange things (opens in a new tab) season 4 vol. 2 Friday, July 1 at 12:01 am PT on Netflix. For more viewing options now and in the coming weeks, check out ours Program of the first TV 2022 .
Source: Cinemablend
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