Maya Hawke wants Robin to die in Stranger Things 5, also to do a Steve spinoff

It’s been a few months now since the fourth season of Stranger Things hit Netflix and became the new hot show in town. It’ll be a long while before we get to see the fifth and final season, and it sounds like the cast members are anticipating it (or dreading it, given that it’s the end and any of these beloved characters could bite it unexpectedly) just as much as we are.

“It’s the last season, so people are probably going to die,” star Maya Hawke (Robin) told Rolling Stone. “I would love to die and get my hero’s moment. I’d love to die with honor, as any actor would. But I love the way that [showrunners] the Duffer Brothers love their actors. The reason that they write so beautifully for me and for everyone else is because they fall in love with their actors and their characters, and they don’t want to kill them. I think that’s a beautiful quality that they have, and I wouldn’t wish it away.”

It’s true that Stranger Things has been more reluctant to kill off its characters than something like, say, Game of Thrones, where prominent characters were dying left and right. But that’s okay, not every show needs to be a bloodbath.

Maya Hawke: Stranger Things is more about friendship than romantic love

And while Hawke would love a meaty death scene, there are also benefits to survival, such as getting cast on potential spinoffs. For instance, Hawke would be down to do a show with Joe Keery, who plays Steve. “He’s so funny and wonderful and smart, and he’s got great boundaries,” she said. “He’s an excellent coworker, and I would do anything with him.”

Robin and Steve have become one of the show’s most beloved dynamic duos, although it’s purely platonic. The fourth season teased a possible rekindling of romance between Steve and Nancy, although Hawke is fussing over it. “I personally think that the thing that’s so beautiful about the show: it actually has never really been about romance,” she said. “People are always shipping characters in that show, but really that show’s about friendship.”

"There’s such an over-emphasis in media that we consume about romantic love, and it being the ultimate destination that we’re all supposed to arrive at. Find this one perfect person and then everything’s good and the story’s over. Part of me would ship it way more if the story wasn’t ending, but there’s something about our female heroes always getting endings – which is them finding the right guy – that I’m super over."

It’s “highly unlikely” that Eddie Munson will return for Stranger Things 5

So talked above about Stranger Things being reluctant to kill characters. We could go further and say that it also likes to bring back dead ones. The big example there is Jim Hopper, who got a big death scene at the end of season 3 only to get a big arc in season 4.

And that brings us to Eddie Munson, who was introduced in season 4, developed a huge following, and was then killed off. “Look at the Eddie phenomenon,” producer Shawn Levy said at the Emmy Awards earlier this week. “I mean, as an example, this is a made-up character that got introduced in the fourth year, and the world fell in love with him. And so the way that our fans invest in the stories and the characters, that’s why we do this job, it’s what we dream of when we do this job.”

So is there a chance that Eddie could come back? “Oh boy, a lot of people – a lot of people – can’t even handle the thought of a Season 5 without some excuse for Eddie presence,” Levy continued. “Highly unlikely. Highly unlikely. But we hear you, world. We know. You’re obsessed with Eddie. So were we.”

We’ll find out for sure when Stranger Things 5 comes out, hopefully sometime in 2023…although 2024 is very possible.

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h/t Games Radar, Collider