{"id":392544,"date":"2026-04-15T01:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/392544\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T01:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:28:15","slug":"stranger-things-star-breaks-silence-on-elevens-fate-after-the-finale-and-their-answer-is-actually-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/392544\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things Star Breaks Silence on Eleven’s Fate After the Finale (And Their Answer Is Actually Perfect)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stranger Things<\/a> caused quite a stir with its series finale, and one of the more divisive elements was the ending of the story for Eleven. The series finale allows for interpretation, with some fans choosing to believe she\u2019s actually dead<\/a>, while others are hopeful she\u2019s actually alive and well. Most of the cast have revealed their thoughts on the finale<\/a> and Eleven\u2019s story, but there\u2019s been one holdout, and now the time has finally arrived to find out how they feel about the finale.<\/p>\n

In an interview with THR<\/a>, Dustin star Gaten Matarazzo spoke about his new film Pizza Movie and the final season of Stranger Things, and that\u2019s when he finally shared his thoughts on what happened with Eleven and if he thinks she\u2019s actually dead. \u201c(Laughs.) Initially, I was like, I\u2019m going to keep pleading the fifth. And then everybody else started saying what they thought, so maybe I will do the same. But I feel like it\u2019d be such a bummer to get on that train and say that I think she\u2019s dead as well. I definitely believe Dustin thinks she\u2019s dead. He\u2019s such a pragmatic, scientific dude who looks at all the evidence in front of him, and I don\u2019t think he would truly believe it the way an optimist like Mike would. But for his friend, he will probably always say that he does believe she\u2019s alive,\u201d Matarazzo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut for me, I\u2019m just going to say that I don\u2019t know. I think she would be [dead], but I also see a world where Matt and Ross would flip it around at some point. I think that\u2019s kind of their intention. So \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d is what I will say right now,\u201d Matarazzo said.<\/p>\n

\"VecnaImage via Netflix<\/p>\n

Eleven\u2019s fate wasn\u2019t the only aspect of the Stranger Things finale that Matarazzo addressed, as he was also asked about Conformity Gate and the secret series finale. When the final episode was released, a theory picked up steam that there was going to be a surprise ninth episode of the series that was the true series finale. The Duffer Brothers addressed that theory and promptly shot it down, but it still didn\u2019t stop the presence of the theory.<\/p>\n

After the supposed time frame for the secret episode came and went, the theory was eventually put to bed as fans accepted that the series finale was, in fact, the finale. That said, Matarazzo remembers an encounter where someone actually skipped out on a date because they thought the ninth episode was supposed to air that night.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo while it was fun to watch from afar, there was secondhand disappointment on my end because I felt bad having to say that nothing was coming. There were a lot of people genuinely really stoked for it. But that\u2019d be pretty sick if it happened. Certain projects have been doing some pretty crazy publicity stunts lately, so I get why there was an idea,\u201d Matarazzo said.<\/p>\n

The complete Stranger Things series is now streaming on Netflix.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below and\u00a0join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stranger Things caused quite a stir with its series finale, and one of the more divisive elements was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,109930,85,46,400,53913,52092,411],"class_list":["post-392544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-gaten-matarazzo","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-netflix","tag-regular-news","tag-stranger-things","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}