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

Linda Hamilton is on her way to Hawkins, Indiana, where she will join the cast of ‘Stranger Things’ for the fifth and final season of the hit Netflix series. tudum.

Hamilton’s ‘Terminator’ co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is also Netflix’s chief action officer and the star of the ‘Arnold’ documentary that debuted on the steamer this month, appeared at a Tudum event in Brazil on Saturday to help her break the news. to announce.

‘Good to see you, Arnold. Let’s have a quick dinner,” Hamilton said in a video message played at the event, adding “and everyone else, I’ll see you in Hawkins…”

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

“I’m going to work on that,” she added.

The announcement marks the first major casting news for Season 5 of the ’80s supernatural thriller series, but details about Hamilton’s character remain a mystery.

The news also comes as production on “Stranger Things” Season 5 has been halted amid the ongoing writers’ strike that began May 2 when the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the association that represents studios, failed to were able to agree on a new contract.

Shortly after the strike began in May, creators Matt and Ross Duffer posted a rack on Twitter that “the writing doesn’t stop when the filming starts”, therefore production is “not possible” until a deal is made.

Finn Wolfhard, who plays Mike Wheeler and has starred in “Stranger Things” since the show’s debut in 2016, recently told EW that they’re “pressing pause until the attack is figured out.”

While the wait for the final season may be longer than anyone expected, viewers can at least begin to speculate how Hamilton will fit in as Hawkins comes to terms with the events that unfolded in Season 4’s wild finale.