David Harbour said that he was lucky to have become famous at 40.
After becoming famous as a preteen, he saw what his younger costars had to deal with.
When the show first aired, Brown spoke about being sexualized as a child.
David Harbour said that he was lucky that he didn't become famous until he was 40 years old, and that he had seen what his younger castmates had gone through.
I see what these kids have to deal with. Harbour told The Los Angeles Times that there is a lot of people that go through worse things.
Getting extremely famous and being so doted on at 11 years old is hard for the mind to reconcile with.
The show made Harbour, along with castmates like Finn Wolfhard and Millie Bobby Brown, household names. The show, which focuses on the supernatural occurrences in a town in Indiana, has become one of the biggest titles on the internet. Brown, who plays psychic teen Eleven on the show, was 12 years old at the premiere.
Harbour told the newspaper that he was lucky because it didn't happen to him until he was 40. I know what it is like to be mistreated. People don't think I'm great. I know how hard it is to find friends, not to have people come to me. I don't know if they will ever have that feeling.
Brown spoke out about being sexualized as a child in the spotlight in a post on her 16th birthday.
Brown wrote in a February 2020 post that he gets frustrated from the inaccuracy, inappropriate comments, sexualization, and unnecessary insults that ultimately have resulted in pain and insecurity for him.
Harbour told the Los Angeles Times that he feels similar feelings for his younger cast members as his character Hopper feels for Eleven, his adopted daughter, despite the fact that he and Brown's relationship isn't close offscreen.
Harbour said that he felt all the feelings that Hopper felt in a sense.
The original article can be found on Insider.
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