During a recent interview for British GQ, the actor who plays Jim Hopper on the hit Netflix show said that after reading the scripts for season one (which aired in 2016), he was convinced his character would die by suicide at the end of the first installment — as a way for Hopper to apologize to his daughter who died.

As the final episodes of Netflix's "Stranger Things" approach, series star David Harbour is reflecting on his role as chief-of-police Jim Hopper. In a new interview with British GQ, Harbour - who is currently in the press cycle for the upcoming Marvel movie "Thunderbolts" - looked back at the character and offered surprising insight as to how he thought his arc should have ended much earlier.

Instead, Stranger Things became a massive hit and a regular paycheck. There was one Hopper fake-out death at the end of the third season, but he came back in the fourth. (“I think they were just committed to the beauty of that moment of his death,