The final two episodes of the fourth season of “Stranger Things” premiered on July 1 on Netflix and we are still processing everything that happened in the epic finale. Among other things, we finally see the long-awaited reunion (and romantic consummation) between Jim Hopper (David Harbor) and Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder), as well as the subsequent return of both characters in Hawkinsafter surviving his dangerous adventures in Russia, away from the gang of Eleven.
The last time Joyce had seen Hopper, Hawkins’ sheriff had looked very different. After being incarcerated and subjected to forced labor in a Russian prison, Hopper lost a lot of weight and, to realistically convey this physical change, Harbor underwent a hard diet that led to a drastic weight loss. In a recent interview with GQ magazine, the actor reveals that he has lost nothing more and nothing less than 36 kilos:. “He weighed 122 pounds in season three and when we shot season four he weighed around 86”.
To bring about that transformation, Harbor reveals it followed a process consisting of intermittent fasting and pilates. However, the actor does not fondly remember the experience accurately: “I don’t think I’ll ever do such a thing again”he admits. In fact, for his next role, where he’ll play a killer Santa Claus in Universal’s new thriller ‘Violent Night’, he was quick to get to work putting the weight back on. “I got it all back. But never again. The prosthetics are too good.”He says.
Harbor is also aware of the fact that the Hopper of the first three seasons is a sex symbol for many people, who do not hesitate to praise his “daddy’s body” (“daddy’s body”) on the Internet. The interpreter says he has it “a curious relationship” with that term: “More or less I like it and the reason is that it’s actually very serious. I think, in a way, I’ve become something like a sex symbol of our time.”. And he adds: “I love the idea of seeing real bodies on TV. And I love the idea of making real people feel beautiful and loved. “.
against the method
Harbor may have undergone a radical physical transformation for “Stranger Things”, but the American actor is totally against the “method”. There are many who have recently reported criticism of this acting technique (among them, Mads Mikkelsen), through which an actor enters the skin of the character both inside and outside the fiction, leading in many cases to great physical and psychological extremes.
Harbor studied the method and practiced it when he was younger, but over time he stopped believing in it and now criticizes it. “I remember playing a famous Scottish king and thinking, ‘I’ll kill a cat. I’ll kill something to find out what it’s like to kill.’he says in the same interview with GQ. “Obviously not. The method is not only silly, but also dangerous and, in fact, does not translate into good work”.
As for Daniel Day-Lewis, perhaps the most famous method actor and three Academy Award winner, Harbor believes so “He is an extraordinary actor who fascinates me and fascinates me. But when he explains his process, it seems to me that it makes no sense.”.
Source: E Cartelera
