“Stranger Things” producer Shawn Levy is well aware the hit Netflix show’s cast is aging faster than their onscreen coutnerparts.
As the SAG-AFTRA strike continues and slows and stops production on the final “Stranger Things” season, Levy isn’t getting too worried he tells Variety.
"We've already watched the cast of our show grow up in the public eye, and between 12 and 22, every human being changes profoundly." He admitted that "this passage of time is definitely not helping," but "that being said, our hair and makeup and wardrobe department are pretty exceptional, using costumes and wigs and makeup."
The show’s final season being set in the ‘80s is a big help as well.
"The '80s are also our friends in returning these young adult actors to their iconic Hawkins characters. So we're going to use all the tools available to us. And I know our cast is as eager to get back to work as the rest of us,” he said.
When the Actors’ strike concludes, cast members like Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, and Noah Schnapp will return to finish the fifth and final season of “Stranger Things.”