In a recent interview with Variety, Stranger Things star David Harbour admitted that he would love to see his character, Chief Jim Hopper, pair up with Joyce Byers (played by Winona Ryder).
“From the very beginning, I thought that these are two tortured, messed up, beautiful people who are like puzzle pieces that can’t stand each other but actually need each other,” he shared.
And just last week, Millie Bobby Brown, who plays Eleven in the beloved sci-fi Netflix series, is also hoping for the possibility of romance between the two main characters, telling Variety she “would love for them to get together.”
“I can’t say anything about this,” Brown said on Monday night at an FYC screening of the Netflix series in New York City when told what Harbour had said. “This is so bad.”
But she added, “Listen, I would love for them to get together. Jopper is like my inspiration in life.”
“Winona Ryder and David Harbor are like my parents,” the 14-year-old actress continued. “On set, they’re like, ‘Stop running, what are you eating, why are you eating that?’ David is like, ‘Another boy?’ And in the show, if they rekindle, that means Will and Eleven will be step-siblings. I would love that because Noah [Schnapp] is my boy best friend.”
Brown also said that she hoped Eleven would lose some of her psychokinetic and telepathic powers.
“I think Eleven should sacrifice herself in some way,” she said during a Q&A hosted by MTV journalist Josh Horowitz after the screening. “That’s how I kind of want that situation to go. I want to have her really sacrifice her powers. If Eleven loses her powers, is she as powerful just as a character? I think that would be very cool. I want to build her to be a strong person without her powers…But right now it’s very about her powers and I think taking that away slowly could be cool.”
The two-time Emmy nominee hopes Eleven will experience being a normal girl. “I don’t think she knows how to be a girl,” she said. “She’s been looking like a boy for a very long time. They thought she was a boy in season 1. I mean, some of my friends now are like, ‘The first time I saw you I thought you were a dude.”
Then Brown smiled saying, “Well, look at me now!”
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— Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) July 22, 2018
