David Harbour wishes he'd done more for the Stranger Things finale.
The 51-year-old actor played chief of police Jim Hopper in all five seasons of the Netflix sci-fi horror hit, and while his character had a fitting ending with Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) in the show's final ever episode earlier in 2026, Harbour had more ideas for his alter ego.
Speaking to On The Go with Deadline, the star admitted he wanted to see Hopper gets more time with both Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard).
"I wanted even a scene with Joe Keery. But stories have to end in a certain way and they don't get to go on and do whatever fan fiction I'm writing in my head," he said
Harbour was speaking at a Stranger Things 5 event at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery to discuss the final season alongside castmates Jamie Campbell Bower (Vecna), Noah Schnapp (Will Byers) and Natalie Dyer (Nancy Wheeler).
Asked about his own ideal ending, Jamie quipped: "I probably would've liked to have ended everyone, as Vecna."
The cast were joined by producer and director Shawn Levy, and the show's creators Matt and Ross Duffer.
The Duffer Brothers were delighted with the final shot of the show, which saw the "kids" reunited in the Wheeler basement for one last game of Dungeons and Dragons.
"It was the most emotional scene to write, because it was the last scene we were ever writing (for these characters) and definitely the most emotional scene to film," Matt Duffer recalled.
Almost everyone agreed that the scene stuck with them the most, including Noah.
He pondered: "It was such a culmination of the 10 years.
"I have the worst memory. I forget everything, and that is just something I cannot get out of my head — every hour of that day."
Australian Associated Press
