JOSEPH QUINN

“Stranger Things”

It’s been a, well, strange year for “Stranger Things” breakout Quinn — or, as he describes it, “quite overwhelming.” The accomplished British TV and stage actor filmed his role as the Dungeons & Dragons-loving metalhead Eddie Munson in a vacuum before Netflix dropped the supernatural drama’s fourth season in two installments over the summer. Suddenly, everyone from Doja Cat to CAA were trying to get a hold of him and fans began clamoring for him to appear in superhero franchises such as the “Fantastic Four” reboot.

Of signing with the mega agency and what that could mean in regards to the latter, Quinn can only say that “I’m moving forward with my arms wide open. Like a baby.”

“All you want as an actor is to have choice and as much agency over your career as possible,” he says. “Even then, so much of it is out of your hands. Whatever comes my way, I’ll see what happens. I think working on something from the infancy of an idea would be a really exciting prospect.”

But the actor, who’s starred in such U.K. stage productions as “Wish List” at the Royal Court Theatre and “Mosquitos” at the National Theatre’s Dorfman Theatre, says he doesn’t want to stray too far from his roots.

“Every year you don’t do a play, your fear of it grows,” he says. “I’d love to do one next year maybe. You don’t want to leave it too long.”

— Whitney Friedlander

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