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At a certain point, he started directing the kids and saying, like, oh, you do this and you do that.

And Finn is now a director, and I just cast his first feature.

He was right to be directing those kids then because he's a natural, and I was super happy to get to see that very beginning of his directing career.

Hi, I'm Carmen Cuba, casting director for Stranger Things, here with Vanity Fair to talk about the casting process.

If I'm honest, when we cast Stranger Things, we had no idea that it was gonna go, it was gonna be a huge hit.

We had no idea it was gonna go on for how long.

You know, sort of the foresight to imagine a future with these characters, but I was really just trying to get the best version of it in the present.

Very early on, the Duffers and I discussed that these parts were not likely gonna be able to be pulled off by a kid who didn't have some experience.

So while some of my process involves, you know, being out in the world and seeing a kid that looks a certain way and, you know, sort of talking to his parents and saying, hey, does your kid wanna act?

This was not gonna be that because it was going to be such hard work.

It was gonna be every day for months on end and very specific dialogue.

So that was helpful because from the very beginning, we were like, okay, no sort of street casting for this.

We're gonna start with theater schools, acting coaches, kids who've been on Broadway.

The kids on the Stranger Things cast have not popped up out of nowhere.

They've been working really hard for years prior to us finding them.

It's just sometimes I feel, I don't know, like I'm stuck.

Noah's audition was really special because it really informed our need for finding somebody who was young and innocent, but who had a strong charisma that would keep the viewers interested in why these kids were so dedicated to finding him because he doesn't actually show up that much in season one, but we knew that he needed to really carry season two.

So we were looking for a lot from this character and he had experience on stage, just shot a film with Spielberg, really just brought it every time we called him in.

So it was very exciting to see this first tape and to know that we would have him continue on in the process with us.

That clip of Millie is also very memorable because we had had her do the scenes first prior to this.

We could tell that she could cry, but she hadn't quite done it.

And the Duffers just asked if we could have her try it again and sort of see how emotional she could get with it.

And obviously she got very emotional and it was actually shocking that someone that young could do that.

And another thing about Millie during the audition process is that she's British and she did everything, including the Skype with the Duffers in an American accent.

So we sort of forgot that she even was British.

So she's pulling all of that acting off while also doing an accent.

And at that young age, it was very impressive as you can see on the series.

Listen, do you remember two days ago with that magic trick when I looked like my Millennium Falcon was really flying?

Finn's audition was fun because it was done from his bed while he was in the middle of being super sick.

You could tell he had energy and life and was really excited to play the part.

And had sort of the same adventurous, playful spirit as his character.

So that was very memorable about that audition.

This could be the most excellent promise you can make.

We knew he had experience and he just brought sort of an energy that the other kids fed into.

All of them together have a very distinct energy and personality that create this friend group.

And we saw that immediately from his very first audition.

My name's Gaten Matarazzo and I'm 12 years old.

This is probably the most serious, most important thing ever.

I'm not coming out until your eyes are closed.

You couldn't have predicted or sort of sought out someone like Gaten.

What he brought to the character was not what we imagined and it also made us realize that we didn't even have any idea what it could be until we met him.

He was sort of the first one that created the part outside of how it was written from the very beginning.

The Demogorgon is tired of your silly human bickering.

When we got them all together, we had already fallen in love with their tapes.

We knew that they were surprising, but bringing them all together, do scenes together and step out and watch each other, just the dynamics on screen were exciting enough, but the dynamics off screen really sealed the deal because you could tell that they would be a team.

They were really supportive and enthusiastic.

Try to imagine what it must've been like when they cast the little rascals.

It feels like a version of that, which I think you feel on the screen when you watch them.

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