It’s official: Stranger Things is now a national obsession. Season 3 just premiered on July 4 and people are already freaking out about when the next season will drop.
So, in the spirit of feeding that obsession, here are 15 behind the scenes facts from Season 3.
Dig in!
1. Dacre Montgomery, who plays Billy, is a method actor, and Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven) said he walked around on set looking intimidating and evil.
2. The hospital scene took two nights to film.
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3. Millie Bobby Brown and Natalia Dyer (Nancy) have the same stunt double.
4. Natalia Dyer and Charlie Heaton (Jonathan) are dating in real life.
5. Millie Bobby Brown said that the blood that pours from Eleven’s nose is usually not CGI. The blood is a formula that she injects up her nose before every take.
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6. A lot of the 1980s props in the show were bought from eBay.
7. The Duffer Brothers (who created the show) play music to get the actors into the right mood for certain scenes.
8. The Starcourt Mall is a real mall in Georgia.
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9. Millie Bobby Brown said she cries when a season of the show wraps because she loves being on set so much.
10. Finn Wolfhard (Mike) improvised some of the lines he said to Eleven in the grocery store scene.
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11. The sauna scene with Billy and kids was shot over the course of a week.
12. Dacre Montgomery wears a wig during the show.
13. About Season 4, Matt Duffer said they want to “open up in terms of allowing plotlines into areas outside of Hawkins.”
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14. Millie Bobby Brown had to learn to throw herself backward for the scene where she infiltrated Billy’s memories. She said it made her nauseous.
