By PTI
NEW YORK: “Stranger Things” star David Harbour has credited his position within the present for uplifting him in actual life, particularly his character Jim Hopper’s story arc of changing into a father determine to Millie Bobby Brown’s Eleven.
Reflecting on his household life with spouse Lily Allen and her two daughters Marnie Rose, 8, and Ethel Mary, 9 — whom the singer shares with ex Sam Cooper — Harbour mentioned that “TV definitely helped me in my life”, reported People journal.
“I’m very much a New York sort of city rat. I liked my freedom, my independence. And then it was really this part that did change a lot of that perspective. The show sort of opened my heart in a lot of different ways, and one of the ways that it did was it started to make me realize how thin my existence was without a family,” the 46-year-old actor mentioned on ‘That Scene with Dan Patrick’ podcast on Amazon Music.
Harbour mentioned his character “maturing into a father” on-screen was additionally “something clearly my subconscious was crying out to do.”
“I think that’s partially why things are so successful because there’s some unique alchemy between the performer and the role. I feel like there was something in Hopper that had a deep need for family, and there was something in me that had it too but that I wasn’t even aware of.”
“As I began to explore this role, the role allowed me to do that in my real life,” he mentioned.
