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Turns out, the rest of the cast feel the same. Joe Keery, who plays bully-turned-babysitter Steve Harrington, has forged an adorable bond with the Stranger Things kids both on-screen and off. And in a recent interview with People ahead of the season three premiere, he spoke about what it's been like watching these talented young actors grow up on-set.
"Terrible," he joked. "I wish they would stay little kids forever!" He then added: "They're amazing. It's really crazy, because you come in the first year and you're not really sure if you're going to work with these people again, and then you come back and these little kids are pretty much like full-blown adults. It's been awesome to kind of just see them handle everything with such grace and be able to speak with such gravitas... They're smart kids. So that's been really cool to see."
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But while Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Finn Wolfhard and co. might be growing up, they still see Keery, 27, as way old, and even kicked him out of their group chat . "Im not in any big group chat now. Im too old for that. We got booted," Keery recently said, with series newcomer Maya Hawke adding: "We weren't cool enough."
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