{"id":415128,"date":"2026-01-18T15:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/415128\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T15:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:33:07","slug":"finn-wolfhard-and-stranger-things-pals-are-all-grown-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/415128\/","title":{"rendered":"Finn Wolfhard and &#8216;Stranger Things&#8217; Pals Are All Grown Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Netflix show stars are now former child actors\u2014even if they still don&#8217;t have a taste for alcohol<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tStranger Things star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/finn-wolfhard\/\" id=\"auto-tag_finn-wolfhard\" data-tag=\"finn-wolfhard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finn Wolfhard<\/a> wants everyone to know that he\u2019s a former child actor\u2014even if he did spit out an alcoholic drink for being too \u201cspicy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live<\/a> host, 23, commented on how he was just 12 when the first episode of the Netflix show aired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cIt feels so amazing that 400 million people got to watch me go through puberty,\u201d he joked. \u201cWhat a dream.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cMy voice changed on camera, my first kiss was on camera, and\u2014I can\u2019t actually believe I\u2019m admitting this\u2014but the first time I learned what a woman looks like down there was on camera as well,\u201d he said, introducing a clip of one of the show\u2019s monsters.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWolfhard said he\u2019s proud to now be able to call himself a man with facial hair (one), and a taste for alcohol (unconsumed).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhen given a glass by Marcello Hernandez, Wolfhard spits the contents in his face, exclaiming, \u201cToo spicy!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cSo yeah, meet the new me. The man me. Because I\u2019m not a kid anymore,\u201d Wolfhard says, as co-stars Gaten Matarazzo and Caleb McLaughlin join in to say that they aren\u2019t, either.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWe aren\u2019t child stars. We\u2019re former child stars,\u201d McLaughlin says, as Matarazzo adds: \u201cAnd anytime you read \u2018former child star\u2019 in a headline, it can only mean good things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe three then had a toast with the same alcohol\u2014but none appeared to take it well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Netflix show stars are now former child actors\u2014even if they still don&#8217;t have a taste for alcohol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,45435,11448,12015,12016],"class_list":["post-415128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-finn-wolfhard","tag-late-night-tv","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-snl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}