Stranger Things 4 casts Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. star Joel Stoffer

Production on Stranger Things season 4 might be on pause because of the coronavirus, but that hasn’t stopped the show from casting Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. fan favorite Joel Stoffer in a mystery role.

Over on the MCU series, Stoffer plays Enoch, a hilarious and charming Chronicom. With Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. coming to an end, Stoffer has had his eye on other projects, and he could do a lot worse than Stranger Things.

So far, his role is being kept rightly under wraps. Stoffer shared what he could with ComicBook.com:

"I’ve got a role that we haven’t shot yet on Stranger Things. I don’t expect it to become anything like long term, but it’ll be coming up. They contact me and I’ll go to Georgia, to Atlanta, and shoot it when they get back up and running. ‘Cause they’ve been obviously shut down for a while."

Not only does Stoffer not know who he’s playing, but he only read one scene during his audition while in lockdown. He was unfamiliar with any of the other characters in the scene, suggesting it didn’t involve Eleven or Mike or Steve or any of the gang from Hawkins, Indiana that we know and love. That suggests he could be part of a whole new storyline. We know part of the show will take place in the Soviet Union in season 4. Perhaps his character is part of that?

"I literally do not know anything. It was cast during quarantine a couple of months ago and I was sent the pages of my scene and that was it. And I didn’t know any of the actors or… I didn’t recognize any names in my scene. So, I don’t even know if I have additional scenes beyond that one scene. I expect that I do, but I really don’t know. You know as much as I do, they’re really secretive."

But not so secretive that the team clued us in that Sheriff Hopper (David Harbour) was still alive and somehow working on a prison gang in Russia. You pick your secrets, I guess:

Like almost every other major TV show and movie, Stranger Things had to stop production in Georgia due to COVID-19. Let’s hope that production can resume soon, as the world slowly and safely begins to open up again. “They haven’t formed their schedule yet,” Stoffer said.

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