Brett Gelman Teases ‘Insane’ New Season of Stranger Things

We spoke with funny man and acclaimed actor Brett Gelman amid the release of Lady in the Lake, a Baltimore-set thriller series now streaming on Apple TV+ starring Natalie Portman. Gelman has kept busy with another hot-topic project: Stranger Things on Netflix, on which he’s co-starred for multiple seasons already. Fans simply cannot wait for the upcoming fifth and final season.

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  Stranger Things

  Inspired by 80s pop-culture and elements of Stephen King’s works, Stranger Things is a supernatural action-drama TV series set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana. When a young boy goes missing, his group of friends stumbles upon a young girl with telekinetic powers who recently escaped from a mysterious facility. They soon realize that she may be their only chance at stopping an impending doom that threatens to engulf Hawkins whole.

  Release Date

  July 15, 2016

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“We’re still filming, and it’s been really great, really fun, really challenging in a great way,” Gelman told MovieWeb. “The new season is going to be insane. I think people will be very happy with it, if they are fans of the show. And everybody’s working at the top of their game. And that’s really all I can say pretty much, or I’ll be killed.”

Gelman Was Featured Prominently in Season 4

Out of his featured seasons thus far, Gelman was featuring most prominently in the latest, and he sung its praises to us — for reasons that have been subject of contention in recent years, such as the hefty length of some of those infamous episodes:

“It really did feel the most like a movie that it ever had… several movies. And you do all these things, you know, you’re working with things that are being CGI’d, and you’re working, you’re imagining the whole thing, but you still don’t see the whole thing. And getting to see the whole thing when it came out, it just blew my mind as a fan of the show, as a fan of the genre, as the fan of the Duffers. And I really loved that, like the last couple episodes were each like an hour and a half. I don’t think that you could have made it shorter. I think if you made it shorter, it would have compromised it — the story and the character arcs and the action.”

Gelman Discussed His Emotionally Intense Performance in Lady in the Lake

Until season 5 of Stranger Things hits the masses, Gelman can be spotted in a more serious role in Lady in the Lake, playing Natalie Portman’s stern husband in a Jewish community during a historically significant time in Baltimore.

“It was really thrilling work,” said Gelman. “That’s not something that I ever say lightly, but it was. And she exceeded my expectations in terms of, we all know her talent, but also her professionalism and the places she’s able to go very quickly. And so she very much set the tone of beatitude on set when I was there, both to the level that we needed to raise to and also, you know, in front of the camera and behind the camera. She just is a truly gracious, down-to-earth, grounded individual. She should teach movie-star classes… in terms of how one conducts themselves, and then is on top of that, just an inspired artist..”

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Gelman continued discussing performing some of the show’s most emotionally intense moments:

“The show’s creator, our director created a very spontaneous, emotionally raw yet very safe environment to go to those places and to surprise each other on set… So what could have been… this composed, repressed sort of Mad Men-esque world… you felt in a lot of ways that you were in a Cassavetes film. And there was just a raw, savage intensity to it… It’s just a very real show in that way. It shows real life, it shows real people to where you can’t really put your finger on, ‘Are they good? Are they bad?’ It’s just life.”

Lady in the Lake is now streaming on Apple TV+.