David Harbour: ‘I’ve always been waiting to be 40 years old’

After a slow start playing the sixth guy chasing Denzel', the Stranger Things star is now building on his action-hero rebirth with Marvel's Black Widow

By the end of filming series three of Stranger Things, David Harbour knew that he was destined for a Russian jail. He knew that the season would end with the not-so-subtle hint that as police chief-cum-supernatural-monster-battler Jim Hopper, he would be captured by Soviet spies. And he was also aware that he would face years of fan theories breathlessly trying to predict how his stretch as an inmate would play out.

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