Brett Gelman Teases Joyce and Hopper’s Romantic Future on ‘Stranger Things’: ‘They Love Each Other’
27.05.2022 - 15:41
/ usmagazine.com
His one true pairing. For Brett Gelman, playing Murray Bauman on Netflix’s Stranger Things has helped him see the appeal between Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) and Jim Hopper (David Harbour) throughout the seasons.
“Absolutely. I definitely ship it. They love each other. That is all that matters,” Gelman, 45, exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the show’s season 4 premiere. “When you meet single people and they are putting together a criteria of what you want, I am like, ‘You are wasting your time and you are stressing yourself out for nothing.'”
The actor noted that his character was quick to see the connection between Joyce and Hopper that the couple in question refused to acknowledge. “At the end of the day, the person that you connect with is the person that you connect with,” Gelman continued. “The person you fall in love with is the person you fall in love with. There is no rhyme or reason to it. It is almost — it is potentially even chemical. Then relationships are a process. So go for it. See what happens.”
Viewers have supported the idea of a Joyce and Hopper romance after the pair started to work together to solve the unexplained mysteries in Hawkins, Indiana. Amid their growing onscreen bond, Ryder, 50, and Harbour, 47, also weighed in on what kind of future they wanted to see happen for their characters.
The Black Widow actor admitted that he considers Joyce and Hopper soulmates. “It’s the idea that the two of us have this flame. I’m not too much of an astrology kind of guy, but they describe this thing as twin flames, which are like soul mates who burn off karma together,” the New York native told the Los Angeles Times during a joint interview in May 2018.
Harbour continued: “I just like the idea of two people who