{"id":22704,"date":"2020-05-05T11:15:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T18:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=22704"},"modified":"2020-05-20T15:07:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T22:07:28","slug":"stranger-things-star-david-harbour-hints-at-more-jim-hopper-backstory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=22704","title":{"rendered":"“Stranger Things” Star David Harbour Hints at More Jim Hopper Backstory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In a recently released video from the Liverpool Comic-Con, actor David Harbour hinted that we will see more backstory for Jim Hopper in Stranger Things<\/em> season 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopper is indeed an interesting character to explore. While most of the characters on the show have never left the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, we’ve known since season 1 that the police chief was an officer in “the big city” for a few years after his divorce and the loss of his daughter to cancer. Besides these details, we don’t know too much about the character’s backstory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harbour cited small details from one of the show’s past seasons that will shed some light on Hopper’s personal history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn season two, Eleven goes into the basement of the cabin and there\u2019s five boxes, one of which has Brenner\u2019s stuff from Hawkins Lab, one of which says ‘Dad,’ one of which says ‘Vietnam.’ One says ‘New York.’ So there are these three things that we\u2019ve established in the season that if we don\u2019t pay off, it means that they\u2019re bad writers. And the Duffer brothers are very good writers. So I know specifically that in Season 4 we will give you a big, huge reveal about Hopper\u2019s backstory.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Harbour went on to say that he’s known about this side of Hopper’s past “since the first frame of the first shot,” and said how excited he is to explore the police chief’s backstory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“And finally we\u2019re gonna express [Hopper’s past] in a big way. It\u2019s my favorite thing about him that you guys don\u2019t know about him yet, but it has to do with these backstories of New York, Vietnam, and dad. And I\u2019m really excited for you guys to know more about that, and it relates, of course, to things he\u2019s doing with Eleven and Joyce and things like that.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It seems like maybe the “big city” Hopper served in as a police officer was New York, and that maybe the chief had some experience in the Vietnam War before his return to Hawkins. As of now, this is purely speculation. Since Harbour didn’t expand on what exactly we’ll learn about Hopper in season 4, all we can do is theorize from these box labels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wait for Stranger Things 4<\/em> is going to be a while though, as the show’s production remains on hold for the time being. The show currently has no season 4 release date, as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can watch the video with Harbour below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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