Maya Hawke felt ‘so lonely’ in Atlanta during the filming of the first Stranger Things season – Film News

Maya Hawke felt “so lonely” while living in Atlanta while filming her first season of Stranger Things.

The New York-based actress, who moves to the Georgia city for a year to shoot each season of the show, has admitted she found it “the loneliest place in the world” when she took part in the sci-fi’s third season series on Netflix. show as Robin Buckley.

“When I first came here, it was the loneliest place in the world, my first season. I was so lonely. I guess I thought I was going to go to a summer camp, but because it’s such a big ensemble show… .(there’s a lot of free time),” she explained on the Podcrushed podcast.

“You’re a regular, they have you, but they don’t need you every day, so it’s a lot of waiting for your turn and being on hold and weather conditions… just enough that you’re not available to do anything else to do, but not enough that you feel really busy or tired.”

Maya said she has a better experience in the city every time she returns, to the point where she is “really happy” filming the fifth and final season.

“Every year I’ve gotten closer and closer to my cast and I’ve become more and more comfortable in this city and more and more able to take care of myself here and bring and build community here,” she continued .

“This season I am very happy. I love my house, I discovered the neighborhood I want to live in… It is important that you are in the neighborhood you like, close to the people you like, close to restaurants that you like and can walk to, it takes a while to figure that out, I just did it in the nick of time.”

The 25-year-old Asteroid City star added that filming the series takes so long because they are “basically making eight movies.”

The final series of Stranger Things, which also stars Millie Bobby Brown, David Harbor and Winona Ryder, will debut next year.