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Finn Wolfhard Talks Stranger Things, His Personal Life, and What’s Next | Who What Wear
Apr 1, 2026
Finn Wolfhard gets honest about life, creativity, and what comes next after Stranger Things. The actor opens up about stepping into directing, pursuing music, and how he’s growing beyond his on-screen roles. Watch Finn in our latest episode of #DyingToKnow to get to know the Stranger Things star on a deeper level.
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You can try to do it, you nerds
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Fart. Hey, I'm Finn Wolfhard, I'm here with Who, What, Where, and what could you possibly be dying to know about me
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What's a rumor about Stranger Things you've never corrected because it's more fun
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to let people believe it? People think that this year, every episode's gonna be
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like three and a half hours long. No one would watch it if that was the case
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I'm gonna fold this one nicely. Okay, if you could play any musician
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Dead or Alive in a biopic, who would it be and why? Tiny Tim, that's easy
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You recently directed the comedy Slasher Hell of a Summer. What directors inspire you
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I like Edgar Wright, I like Steven Soderbergh, I like Greg Mottola, Bong Joon-ho
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early Wes Anderson I really like, Spielberg. I really like Indiana Jones' The Last Crusade
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That's like an underrated one I feel like that people don't talk about enough. Bye
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Okay, what CDs would Mike Wheeler have lined up to listen to on his Walkman
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I feel like the whole thing about him is that he's like kind of vanilla
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in a lot of the stuff that he likes, but then I feel like as he's gotten older
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he's gotten cooler. So I don't know, maybe some like new order CDs or something
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And then I'm gonna make this one into a paper airplane, which I don know how to do I committed to this before I knew exactly how to do it Top three horror films of all time and why
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Oh my God, that's so hard. Rosemary's Baby. It's not just scary
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it's also like an incredible, weird, dramatic film. American Horror Film is amazing because it's so funny
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Also, I just like love seeing London at that time. Third, maybe I'll go with Shaun of the Dead
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Shaun of the Dead also is like one of my favorite movies. It was a big movie that made me want to make movies
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I think this will be a classic. That's it. If we opened your streaming queue, what is the guilty pleasure show we'd find
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Honestly, I've been finding that like the guilty pleasure stuff ends up just becoming like a regular pleasure
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Like guilty doesn't, there's no guiltiness anymore. There were some like reality TV days for sure
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Did Joe Keery have any advice for you as you were ramping up your solo music career
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Yeah, he definitely did. If I don't know what decision to make about something or I'm like running an idea by him
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he's always incredibly supportive and always gives like great advice. Bookmark What is the strangest thing that ever happened to you while filming Stranger Things I did a running scene in season 4 and I almost puked because I was like running so much
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And then realized like I should probably do any exercise at all or else I'll die
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Oh, mic down. I think. Wait. Is there a piece of set lore like a running joke or superstition that's been around since season 1
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season one. Caleb used to just say like insane shit that like wouldn't make any sense. He didn't
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even know what it meant. He just knew that it sounded funny out loud. He used to say it's colder
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than an iceberg on layaway. Absolutely made no sense. Anytime it was cold on set, even season five
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will say it's colder than an iceberg on layaway. What should I do with this? Dream music collaboration. If you could collaborate with any Canadian artist, who would it be? This is
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Such a good question. Maybe for this, Feist. I love Feist. She's awesome
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And Canadian queen. You know what, I'm not gonna rip this. I'll put Feist right here
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Which character's death in seasons one to four shocked you the most
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In season two, when Gaten's character, Dustin, has a little pet that ends up being a Demogorgon
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when it eats his cat we cold read those episodes We had never read them before We read them aloud The cast like freaked out because it was just so like shocking Pretty awesome shot actually
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That's kind of it, that both of them are, I'm going to try to do it for each one
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What kind of stories or projects are you most excited to direct next and what draws you to them
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Movies are shows about people that kind of can't help but be themselves even if it's to their detriment
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A lot of the scripts and the things that I've written and want to direct in the next little while are all kind of about self-destructive people
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Is that a compter? Cool way to say a helicopter. If Pennywise and Vecna went head-to-head, who's walking away the winner and why
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What would make maybe this more interesting is a head-to-head instead of them fighting
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Maybe it's a BMX race or something. I think Vecna would win. Pennywise, we bully to death, basically
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He's like the most like insecure creature ever. So like a roast battle maybe
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because then you could just kill him after like one joke. So I think Vecna all the way would win
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Wait, we're gonna get in the third one? No
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