But when I got to know her and we started shooting, she was much more energetic, which I was pretty happy about because I feel like I can be a pretty outgoing person.”
It was weird because she’s not a shy person. “And I had met Millie also at the audition,” he continues, “but she was very shy there and I didn’t know why. He met Wolfhard at a callback in Los Angeles, where they stayed at the same motel, hung out, and “had good chemistry from the start.” Schnapp, he says, is “super sweet” and McLaughlin, who also has a Broadway pedigree, had befriended Matarazzo years ago in New York. All four were tutored on set together and still “get together like crazy,” though some warmed up to Matarazzo more quickly than others. Matarazzo and the rest of the cast’s junior members-McLaughlin, Schnapp, Wolfhard, and Brown, America’s most adored child actors at the moment-became close friends over the course of production. And his cleidocranial dysplasia, a condition that primarily affects the development of bones and teeth, was also written into the show for him, hence Dustin’s nickname, “Toothless,” and a scene in which he exasperatedly re-educates a pair of ignorant town bullies. More than once, our conversation turns to food. Indeed, like Dustin, Matarazzo is upbeat and often funny. “I don’t think we really understood who that character was,” says Matt, “and then we met Gaten and basically tailored the show to him.” Initially, they’d envisioned him as a flatter, more “stereotypical nerd”-a far cry from the adorable Nilla wafer truther who made it to screen.
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The show’s creators Matt and Ross Duffer admit that before casting Matarazzo, they had little idea how to write a character like Dustin. He took a bit part on an episode of The Blacklist-and then came the call for Stranger Things.
(“I didn’t know the first thing about acting but I was like, ‘Yeah!’ And my mom went, ‘Really?’ And I was like, ‘Uh-huh! Let’s just do it, it’s probably cool.’”) By 12, he’d toured with two Broadway shows, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Les Miserables. Matarazzo was the first child actor cast in Stranger Things, five years after he said “yes” on an optimistic whim to a talent rep at a showcase he’d tagged along to with his big sister. Like in Harry Potter, I always loved Ron Weasley when I read the books.” “And,” he adds, importantly, “his character’s funny! I like the funny characters. He’s always trying his best to keep everyone in line.” “I like how he’s loyal to his friends and he’s always there to keep trying to get people to get along, even if it doesn’t work out all that well.
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