Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Andrew Stanton, Frank Darabont, Nimród Antal, Uta Briesewitz
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Kate Trefry, Jessie Nickson-Lopez, Jessica Mecklenburg, Alison Tatlock
Even if Vecna is defeated, Kali worries that the cycle of superpowered beings will never be over as long as El is alive, so she suggests that they stay behind when the bridge is blown up.
As revealed by Kali in Stranger Things season 5, Dr.
Kay has taken up Dr. Brenner's Project Indigo. I feel so comfortable around her, and it was hard to say goodbye. The final scene of "The Bridge" shows Murray successfully getting the group through the rift into the Upside Down, and the final episode will likely pick up right from there.
Those who enter the Upside Down will now need to split up to carry out different aspects of the mission.
If El is alive, the existence of programs like Project Indigo may never truly end, but as of Stranger Things season 5, Volume 2's ending, it's unclear if Eleven is willing to sacrifice herself.
How Will Can Help Beat Vecna
After nearly five full seasons, Stranger Things finally confirms that Will is gay by giving the character an emotional scene that allows him to come out to his family and friends.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
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Stranger Things 5: Hawke on Schnapp, Robin/Will LGBTQ Bond & More
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Stranger Things 5 star Maya Hawke discusses Robin's friendship with Will (Noah Schnapp), and Robin helping him along his LGBTQ journey.
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Article Summary
Maya Hawke shares insights on Robin's vital friendship with Will Byers in Stranger Things 5
Robin helps Will as he navigates coming out, lending support on his LGBTQ journey this season
Hawke reflects on channeling her personal struggles into Robin and Will's deepening connection
Stranger Things 5 finale arrives New Year’s Eve, bringing closure to a number of storylines
The final season of Stranger Things is largely defined by Will Byers' (Noah Schnapp) journey of self-discovery, from tapping into his link with Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) to help his loved ones in danger, to the intimidating experience of growing up in his own skin with unresolved feelings for his best friend, Mike (Finn Wolfhard), closeted before finally coming out to his loved ones in part two's finale "The Bridge." While he's not the first major character to come out in the Duffers' series, that distinction goes to Maya Hawke's Robin Buckley, who was introduced in season three as she came out to Steve Harrington (Joe Keery), as he mistook her pouring her soul as mutual feelings toward him.
If the scene in which Jonathan reassures Will that he is with him no matter what in season 4 wasn't enough, the conversations between Will and Robin (then the only out character) should have been.
Robin has essentially acted as a mentor to Will in season 5, helping him learn to accept himself and feel confident enough to come out.
It was so nice because it hadn’t been exhausted yet. So I could either start with a wide and kind of explore it and feel out the scene and then go to the close up, or go straight into it. Under his control, Vecna shows Will a version of the future where Will ends up alone after pushing everyone away because he feels "different."
By coming out and realizing that he's still accepted by the Party, Will takes back some of the power since he no longer fears what Vecna will do with the truth.
When I came out, I didn’t say the word “gay.” It’s hard, and it feels scary to say it. Therefore, Will decides that he needs to be with Eleven in the Upside Down in case Vecna targets the physical world, too. However, it’s not until Season 5, Episode 7, “The Bridge,” when Will finally admits to his friends— “I don’t like girls.”
The emotional monologue rounding out the series’ penultimate episode is a powerful, touching and poignant delivery on Will’s highly anticipated coming out.
It was perfect.
Did you get the opportunity to workshop the script with the Duffers or with Shawn Levy, who directed “The Bridge” with the Duffers? From there, Eleven can hopefully use her powers to hijack Vecna's mind while in the Upside Down's version of Hawkins Lab.
Whereas Max can help guide El into Vecna's mind, considering her experiences from within his mindscape, Kali plans to use her own powers to piggyback into Vecna's mind with her sister.
He wants them to plant a bomb near the exotic matter in Upside Down to destroy the bridge, with the hope that it will also destroy the Abyss and everything inside of it. Even with the coming out scene, having that much dialogue and actually getting to express myself through my words, which this character has never really done until then, was so nice.
A lot of those scenes you share with Winona Ryder.
It was really special.
Maya speaks like a madman so I asked, “How do you learn all these lines and not think about it in the scene?” She said, “It’s not about how well you know it, it’s how long you’ve known it for, so just prep for months before.” So I’d just go through it morning and night every day for months before shooting, but I wouldn’t prep how to say it or how to feel.
Oh my God, it was endless. Through rifts in both worlds, Vecna is attempting to merge the two worlds.
As the two worlds weaken, they will eventually collide, giving Vecna an opportunity at "remaking the world," as Eleven points out. The actress spoke with Netflix, breaking down working with Schnapp on coming to terms with Will's sexuality and the mutual empathy from her own experience in high school.
Stranger Things 5: Maya Hawke on Working with Noah Schnapp on Building Robin and Will's Friendship, Helping Him Find His LGBTQ Voice
"Working with Noah was so unspeakably wonderful and unexpected for me.
While the character has spent much of the series as the victim, he takes center stage as a hero in Season 5, revealed to have sorcerer-like supernatural abilities in the season’s fourth episode that concluded Volume 1. For so long, you and the main ensemble were the youngest people on the show.
Yeah, I noticed that and I spoke to the Duffers about it specifically.