Joe Keery's Mom Said Steve Harrington Was A "Total Jerk" On Stranger Things
Joe Keery is getting used to the stranger life of a Stranger Things star. In the wake of the show's smash success, Joe found himself learning how to weigh feedback, and remember what's important. In a recent interview with Bustle, he opened up about just that.
"I gauge it by the way my mom reacts," he said, when asked how he thinks his character Steve Harrington was received. "She saw the first season and was like, 'Man, you were a total jerk, I didn't know you were going to be a jerk.' But, yeah this year, she’s a little more excited that I was, you know, hanging out with kids." Though the reckoning of Steve's character definitely made for one of the more significant plot twists in the second season, Joe says that the exposure – for better and for worse – is something that he's learning to cope with.
"It’s so weird, it definitely makes me a little more hesitant to put myself online or anything like that," he said. "It’s not like I’m just sharing it with my friend, I’m sharing it with a couple million people now. It makes me a little more hesitant, but it also doesn’t make me want to change my outlook for the way that I use it, just as kind of like a fun, funny tool, and not use it as an 'on at 10!' self-promotional thing."
Despite the amount of attention Stranger Things has received, it's worth mentioning that Joe isn't just an actor – he's a musician, too. Though he's proud of his screen work, he hopes it doesn't eclipse his other passions. "It’s important to disassociate Steve from Stranger Things to the band because I think it will eventually hurt the band," he said, referring to his rock band, Post Animal. "Those guys are such talented musicians… I think it's important that they're hitting the pavement for a while and making a name for themselves and it's not necessarily associated with Stranger Things."
He noted that while he was filming season 2 of the show, he worked on some music – oh, and he lived in a cabin without wifi while doing so. (That's very Eleven of you, Joe.) With no set release date in mind, he's hopeful that we'll get a glimpse of what he's been working sooner rather than later.
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