David Harbour Didn't Think 'Stranger Things' Would Be As Popular As It Is

In a new interview, the 47-year-old actor revealed that he honestly wasn’t expecting the hit Netflix series to be popular at all.

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During an appearance on BBC’s “The One Show” David explained that when the cast was filming the very first season, not a lot of them had faith it would go beyond season one.

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“I remember when we were shooting the first season. We were down in Atlanta, Netflix had given us a budget of about $20,” he explained.

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“Halfway through I remember my hair person coming up to me, like about Episode Four, we were shooting, and she was like, ‘I don’t think it’s gonna work.’”

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“By the time we finished, we wrapped, I thought we wouldn’t get a second season,” David added.

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“We’d be the first Netflix show kind of ever to never get a second season. We thought no one would watch it, it was going to be a disaster.”

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Currently, Stranger Things is in pre-production on the fifth season of the show.

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