No Eleven and Mike: the star couple of ‘Stranger things’ is the one formed by Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo) and his unlikely friend/older dream brother Steve Harrington (Joe Keery). The Duffer brothers, bosses of the series, have insisted on matching the second, professionally speaking, with Robin Buckley (Maya Hawke), but what many of us want is for Dustin to join the team of ‘clerks’ at the Family Video video store as soon as possible. . On the other hand, Steve’s failed romances don’t interest anyone; only his ‘bromance’ with Dustin is noteworthy.
In the real world, moreover, Keery and Matarazzo maintain the same relationship of mutual dependency. “He’s like the 60-year-old uncle I never had,” Keery said of his colleague. during the New York premiere of the fourth season. And as he added, some of the most real, crudest scenes he has filmed in the series have been “arguing with Gaten; discussions of the style ‘but what are you talking about?!’. They are very natural, it is something that comes to us naturally to both of them.”
When we talk about the main band of ‘Stranger things’, we don’t usually include Steve in the lot, but both his chemistry with Matarazzo and his individual magnetism have given rise to memorable moments. Also his mop of hair is undoubtedly the central character of the Netflix phenomenon. Following his (Keery’s) reveal in the first season, some publications pursued fewer interviews with the actor than with his hairdressers, in an attempt to learn the secrets of that volume. Last year, a notorious profile of ‘GQ’ revealed the unlikely: Keery doesn’t even wash her hair. Hence, in a show of honesty, she turned down a lucrative deal with a hair care brand.
Parallel career in music
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He turned down that deal as well, in part, because he can afford it. Which does not mean that he easily achieved stardom. In fact, she’s had a bit of a hard time by today’s celebrity standards: when she emerged with ‘Stranger Things’ she was already 24 years old. She was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, a little over three decades ago, to an architect father and an English teacher mother. She began acting in high school at the insistence of her older sister, later studying drama at DePaul University in Chicago. After… a certain journey through the desert.
Because before ‘Stranger things’ there wasn’t much: basically small parts in ‘Chicago Fire’ and ‘Empire’ or commercials for KFC or Domino’s. Keery had time left over to pursue his other passion, music, recording for a time with the psych-rock group Post Animal. Even now, when she has to divide her time between the last moments of ‘Stranger things’ and movies with Ryan Reynolds (‘Free guy’) or Liam Neeson (future sci-fi/action hybrid ‘Cold storage’), still makes time for that other calling: recording songs like some pocket-sized Tame Impala under the alias Djo. They’re going to keep listening to good old Keery, from the screens or, who knows, from the loudspeakers of some festival.