David Harbour Admits He Thought 'Stranger Things' Would Be a 'Disaster'

Stranger Things has become such an incredible hit for Netflix, it's difficult to imagine it being anything but. However, star David Harbour has admitted he thought it would be a "disaster" during filming.

Visiting The One Show, the actor was asked if he thought it would be such a huge success and alongside crew members, he said he didn't think so at the start.

"Not at all," the Jim Hopper star said. "I remember when we were shooting the first season. We were down in Atlanta, Netflix had given us a budget of about $20 and we thought…

"Halfway through, I remember my hair person coming up to me, about episode 4 we were shooting, and she said, 'I don't think it's going to work'.

"So by the time we wrapped, I thought we wouldn't get a second season, we'd be the first Netflix show ever to never get a second season. We thought no one would watch it, it was going to be a disaster."

He's not the only one who thought the show might struggle to be picked up for a second season, as Natalia Dyer, who plays Nancy Wheeler on the sci-fi series, admitted the cast wasn't prepared for it to be so successful.

"Nobody knew if it was going to get picked up again after we finished filming season one," Dyer told The Independent. "There was really an air of, 'We might never see each other again'."

"No one had any idea how successful the show would be," she continued. "There was no preparation – there couldn't have been, even if we'd known. It was a surprising and overwhelming shock. Then it was like, 'OK, this is how it is now'."

Although the show has just given us an epic season 4 finale, bosses have already been teasing the final ever episode, as well as what fans can expect overall from season 5.

Stranger Things seasons 1-4 are now streaming worldwide on Netflix.

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