Maya Hawke Would ‘Love’ Her ‘Stranger Issues’ Character To Die, However Open To A Spinoff With Joe Keery

Maya Hawke is absolutely hoping to ship Robin off in a blaze of glory.

The “Stranger Things” actress reveals that she would “love” to see her beloved character die within the present’s upcoming fifth and final season, however that she’d additionally accept a lighthearted spinoff with Joe Keery.

“It’s the final season, so persons are most likely going to die,” she tells Rolling Stone of the Duffer Brothers’ sci-fi drama on Netflix. “I’d like to die and get my hero’s moment. I’d like to die with honor, as any actor would.”

Hawke responds to co-star Millie Bobby Brown‘s latest quip that the showrunners want to begin killing off extra characters as a result of the solid is so giant, they will’t slot in a photograph collectively.

“I really like the best way that the Duffer Brothers love their actors,” Hawke replied. “The explanation that they write so superbly for me and for everybody else is as a result of they fall in love with their actors and their characters, and so they don’t need to kill them. I believe that’s an attractive high quality that they’ve, and I wouldn’t want that away.”

To wit: the Duffer Brothers have beforehand acknowledged that fan favourite Steve, performed by Joe Keery, was initially purported to die within the show’s first season. Finally, they beloved Keery’s efficiency a lot that they determined to maintain his character round.

“You’re studying what works and what doesn’t work,” Matt Duffer mentioned on a panel at Netflix’s Geeked Week earlier this yr. “The solid is impacting the place you are taking the narrative, the opposite writers and administrators…it’s this residing factor.”

In latest seasons, Robin and Steve have shaped a dynamic friendship and introduced levity to the present’s heavy material. If each survive the collection finale, Hawke jokes that she’d like to observe their characters to New York Metropolis within the ’90s.

“We’re simply partying within the golf equipment and figuring our s**t out,” she cracks. “Usually I wouldn’t actually be a proponent of a derivative, but when I received to do it with Joe Keery, I’d do something. He’s so humorous and fantastic and good, and he’s received nice boundaries. He’s a superb coworker and I’d do something with him.”

Hawke, the daughter of actors Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke, additionally addresses whether or not she’s “shipping” Steve and Nancy.

“I believe that Robin’s undoubtedly transport Steve and Nancy. I believe that Robin undoubtedly desires no matter would make Steve the happiest, which seems to definitely be Nancy,” she says. “I personally suppose that the factor that’s so lovely in regards to the present: it truly has by no means actually been about romance. Individuals are all the time transport characters in that present, however actually that present’s about friendship.”

Hawke continues, “There’s such an over-emphasis in media that we eat about romantic love, and it being the last word vacation spot that we’re all purported to arrive at. Discover this one excellent individual after which all the pieces’s good and the story’s over. A part of me would ship it far more if the story wasn’t ending, however there’s one thing about our feminine heroes all the time getting endings — which is them discovering the appropriate man — that I’m tremendous over.”

The 24-year-old actress was talking to Rolling Stone whereas selling her new new musical enterprise. Hawke will launch a folks album referred to as Moss on Sept. 23. She recorded the album at Lengthy Pond Studio — the identical place Taylor Swift created Folklore.

“I used to be an enormous fan of Folklore and Evermore, particularly ‘Cowboy Like Me,’ which isn’t one of many singles. It’s my favourite monitor on each of these information,” she says. “That was the place I used to be like, ‘Whoever blended this music, I need to have combine my music.’ It was a gradual music, however it nonetheless had this drive ahead, and that’s the sensation that I wished.”

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