If David Harbour is giving an interview, there’s a decent chance he will wish death upon one of the Stranger Things characters. Last year, he said he was “convinced” that his own character Jim Hopper should have died by suicide at the end of the show’s first season.

Stranger Things turned David Harbour into a star, but the actor was ready to just walk away from Netflix’s hit series. The acclaimed actor has now revealed the reason why. What did David Harbour say about leaving Stranger Things?

The Netflix series left its main character's fate somewhat ambiguous, but the guy behind Jim Hopper has no doubts about what happened.

It wasn’t David Harbour.

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Warning: Minor spoilers ahead for Stranger Things Season 5, Volume 1. There are many theories about which characters will survive the fight against Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), but judging by newly surfaced set photos, Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and Hopper ...

A Stranger Things star has openly come out in defense of the show’s divisive ending. The comments come months after the Netflix show’s climax stirred the pot. David Harbour, who played Jim Hopper, has shared his reasons why such an ending was bound to happen.

The wait for the next three episodes of Stranger Things Season 5 in the 2025 TV schedule is nearly over, and fans with a Netflix subscription will have the option of celebrating Christmas with some supernatural scares straight out of the Upside Down.