Stranger things: hopper’s death ‘confirmed’ as star drops clue?

Stranger Things viewers have long been hoping Hopper (played by David Harbour) could have escaped the devastating explosion that saw him presumed dead in the season three finale. However,

after a recent interview with the Hopper star, things are looking doubtful. Stranger Things star David Harbour, who plays the famous chief Hopper in the Netflix show, has made it no secret

he wants his character dead. The star previously revealed his character deserved what he got speaking on Late Night with Seth Meyers. he said: “Well, here's the thing. I always knew

that Hopper had to make a sacrifice. "Like, he's a jerk, and he also needs to pay for that in some way." READ MORE: STRANGER THINGS SEASON 4 NETFLIX RELEASE DATE: WILL THERE

BE SERIES 4? Now, the star has reaffirmed this in a recent interview with latimes.com, dropping a worrying clue. He explained: “When I read that first scene with Joyce and Hopper and he

resists helping her find her child and even makes a bit of a homophobic joke about him, you see this guy has really sort of died on the inside as a result of the death of his daughter. “The

fact that he lives with a certain amount of internalised rage and had been slowly killing himself with pills and alcohol… he needed to make a sacrifice,” says Harbour. Was Hopper always

meant to die? The viewer then went on to discuss the noticeably long cut to black shortly before the machine exploded. They continued: “And about that cut to black before the explosion. The

length of the black screen was intentional.” They then added that this could have been Hopper’s chance to escape and jump into the dimensional gate. “We’re meant to feel it,” they went on.

“It was six whole seconds long. Long enough for him to have made the leap into the Upside Down.