Linda Hamilton has jumped into Hawkins, Indiana, for the highly-anticipated fifth and last season of Netflix‘s Stranger Things, she is not going to be tuning in to observe as her castmates enterprise into the Upside Down one final time.
“I’ve watched every season with relish. I just love it,” Hamilton tells Us Weekly. “So it’s kind of, like, imposter syndrome where I don’t [feel that I] fit in there. That’s a whole world set in the ’80s.”
Hamilton continues, “When you buy into something, you don’t see yourself in it. So, I think it ruined the show for me. I never watch [a project] once I’m in something. It would completely take me out of the reality of it to see myself in there. So, I won’t be watching [Season 5].”
The specifics about Hamilton’s character on this Dungeons and Dragons-themed present have been stored carefully underneath wraps, with showrunners Ross and Matt Duffer not wanting to present something away.
“I Zoomed [creators] Ross and Matt Duffer, and they gave me the shape of the character, but not of the story,” Hamilton explains. “They have to be very careful with their story. So I still don’t know how it ends. It takes a lot of discipline not to know where it will go, but that’s to protect it from all of the people that want to know.”
Although she is not going to be watching it, the Terminator actress is “thrilled to be a part” of the present. Production for the ultimate season started on January 8, with an official Stranger Things Instagram publish exhibiting your complete solid on the primary day. But though manufacturing is effectively underway, there is no such thing as a set date for when the finale will air on Netflix.