Finn Wolfhard Remembers Being Asked for a Selfie in High School Hallway After “Stranger Things” Premiered: ‘I Have No Control Over This’ Victoria EdelMon, July 6, 2026 at 9:02 PM UTC 0 Finn Wolfhard in season one of ‘Stranger Things’Credit: Curtis Baker/Netflix Finn Wolfhard is looking back at how his life transformed when Stranger Things premiered 10 years ago Wolfhard remembered a girl in the grade above him demanding a photo of him and that teachers “especially” didn’t know how to treat him Wolfhard admitted that he “still” hasn’t “totally grasped” what fame means Finn Wolfhard had a hard t...
Finn Wolfhard Remembers Being Asked for a Selfie in High School Hallway After “Stranger Things” Premiered: ‘I Have No Control Over This’
Victoria EdelMon, July 6, 2026 at 9:02 PM UTC
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Finn Wolfhard in season one of ‘Stranger Things’Credit: Curtis Baker/Netflix -
Finn Wolfhard is looking back at how his life transformed when Stranger Things premiered 10 years ago
Wolfhard remembered a girl in the grade above him demanding a photo of him and that teachers “especially” didn’t know how to treat him
Wolfhard admitted that he “still” hasn’t “totally grasped” what fame means
Finn Wolfhard had a hard time adjusting to the fame that came with Stranger Things.
Wolfhard, now 23, opened up in a July 6 interview with The Guardian about how he had his first taste of celebrity at 13 years old.
The first season of Stranger Things had aired that summer, in 2016, and when the Canadian actor returned to his Vancouver high school, he thought things would be the same.
“People didn’t know how to treat me, especially the teachers,” Wolfhard said. “Kids that didn’t even look at me before were paying attention to me or wanting to hang out.”
He specifically remembered a girl in the grade above him who asked him to take a photo with her. “And I was like: ‘Oh, I can’t really take photos at school.’ And she wasn’t listening to me and pulled me into, like, a side hug,” he said.
“I remember thinking: ‘S--t, man. I have no control over this. This seems crazy.’ So, it was definitely weird at first, and something I still haven’t totally grasped,” he added.
From left: Gaten Matarazzo, Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, and Noah Schnapp in ‘Stranger Things’ season twoCredit: Jackson Davis/Netflix
Stranger Things, where Wolfhard played Mike Wheeler, aired for five seasons, from 2016 to 2025. He told The Guardian that because he and his castmates — including Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink and Noah Schnapp — had such “public-facing jobs at such young ages,” it made it challenging to totally avoid online chatter.
Still, he said, “I never totally got too wrapped up in what the internet was saying or doing. But yeah, developmentally, it’s probably not a good thing to read things about yourself.”
He added that he was grateful that he “still had a large chunk of my childhood” that was unrelated to technology and the internet.
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Back in 2025, Wolfhard reflected to PEOPLE about what he might change about his teenage years when he first found fame.
“I don’t think I’d ever go back and do something over, but maybe I would go back to when the show first came out and blew up, and I would directly put myself into therapy,” he said. “But it was so crazy and overnight, that there was not really any time to think about that.”
Finn Wolfhard in MayCredit: Mike Coppola/Getty
He added that even if he did change that one thing, “I would end up probably making a mistake in a different way, anyway. I think childhood, and life in general, is about trial and error.”
When Stranger Things finished filming, he said, “I was satisfied, but I was also very confused and sad, but also very happy.”
Finishing the series “was definitely a lot,” he said. “I felt like I was in a dream or something. None of it felt real. I don’t know, it felt perfect.”
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Wolfhard’s other roles have included Richie Tozier in 2017’s Itand 2019’s It Chapter Two and Trevor Spengler in 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife and 2024’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.
Wolfhard has also released music with his band Calpurnia and as a solo artist; his second album, Fire From the Hip, will be released July 10.
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Published: July 7, 2026 at 12:45AM on Source: RED MAG
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