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Gaten Matarazzo drew on grief for Stranger Things performance

Gaten Matarazzo drew on his own grief

Gaten Matarazzo's own grief helped inform his performance in Stranger Things season five.

The 23-year-old actor lost his cousin Joey, who was 19, in a car accident in 2020 and looking at the different ways his family processed the situation helped him to understand the "personality shift" his alter ego Dustin Henderson has revealed in the upcoming episodes following the death of his close friend Eddie Munson (Joseph Quin) in the season four finale.

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