‘Terminator’ star Linda Hamilton joins cast of ‘Stranger Things’ for final season

Linda Hamilton is heading to Hawkins, Indiana, the place she’ll be part of the cast of “Stranger Things” for the favored Netflix series’ fifth and final season, in line with Tudum.

Hamilton’s “Terminator” co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is also Netflix’s chief motion officer and the star of the “Arnold” documentary that debuted on the steamer this month, appeared at a Tudum occasion on Saturday in Brazil to assist her announce the information.

“Good to see you, Arnold. Let’s get dinner quickly,” Hamilton stated in a video message that performed throughout the occasion, including “and everybody else, I’ll see you in Hawkins…”

A fan of the show herself, Hamilton additionally joked in her video announcement that she doesn’t know “learn how to be a fangirl and an actress on the similar time.”

“I’m gonna work on that,” she added.

The announcement marks the primary main casting information for Season 5 of the supernatural Eighties-set thriller sequence, however particulars surrounding Hamilton’s character stay a thriller.

The information additionally comes as manufacturing on “Stranger Issues” Season 5 stays at a standstill amid the ongoing writers’ strike that started Might 2 when the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers, the affiliation representing studios, had been unable to return to an settlement on a brand new contract.

Shortly after the strike started in Might, creators Matt and Ross Duffer posted a statement on Twitter that “writing doesn’t cease when filming begins,” subsequently manufacturing “will not be potential” till a deal is made.

Finn Wolfhard, who performs Mike Wheeler and has starred in “Stranger Issues” for the reason that present’s 2016 debut, just lately told EW that they’re “urgent pause till the strike is found out.”

Whereas the watch for the ultimate season could also be longer than anyone anticipated, viewers can no less than start to take a position how Hamilton will slot in as Hawkins involves phrases with the occasions that unfolded within the wild Season 4 finale.