Warning: This article contains spoilers fromStranger Thingsseason 3.
You probably recognizeMaya Hawke’s voice.
“I know, it’s crazy,” says the actress of their vocal similarities.
Credit: Netflix
It does happen all the time."
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How did you get this role?
MAYA HAWKE: I totally auditioned.
Basically, I was a fan of the show.
I’d seen both seasons.
And then I had a general meeting with the casting director, Carmen Cuba, who I just love.
Then I was flying to Atlanta.
You and Joe have such a natural rapport.
We just developed a good energy going and it was just playful and funny and kind of laid back.
The great thing about Joe is he really doesn’t take himself too seriously.
That mirror could be funny to look at.
That door could be funny to slam."
How did you feel about spending basically the entire season in sailor suits?
I happen to really like my sailor suit but Joe didn’t like his.
But I really liked mine.
And I love stripes.
I loved my sailor suit.
You and Joe are tied together for an entire episode.
What was that like?
Basically, when you read it you’re like, “Oh that sounds great.”
I’m just really tied to this chair and it just sucks."
So the things you think are going to be fun are never the things that are fun.
I think we were tied to those chairs for like six or seven hours.
In the same scene, you have to act insanely high.
How did you keep up the giggles?
We both just really did heroin.
We just kept trying to make each other laugh.
What were we being poisoned with??
Did you have to learn Russian for this role?
Or did you have that in your back pocket already?
I had to study how to pronounce Russian words and understand certain Russian symbols.
Could I go to Moscow today and get around with the locals?
But could I repeat the phrase that I had to memorize?
And the Starcourt was an actual mall?
It was a real operating mall.
There were like Atlanta people wandering through, shopping at J.C. Penney.
But there was a whole side of it that we entirely refurbished.
Totally decked out to look like the ’80s, had everything you could think of in your ’80s mall.
The Gap was a goldmine.
What was it like stepping into a dynamic with Joe and Gaten Matarazzo who had already worked together?
They kind of are still discovering their dynamics within this season.
And you feel like the new kid in school.
But we were kind of separated into our own reading group, as they say.
We were in a new environment.
They had a new mission.
Have The Duffers told you anything about season 4?
Could Robin be back?
I would absolutely want to come back.
Did you parents watch any advance episodes?
They haven’t seen the new season yet.
They’re going to have to watch it with everybody else.
For more with Maya Hawke on Robin’s major reveal, stay tuned to EW.com this weekend.
