Finn Wolfhard Debuts Buzz Cut Before ‘Stranger Things’ Final Season: See Photos

Finn Wolfhard is in a season of change as he approaches the ultimate season of Stranger Things!

The actor, 22, stepped out on the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards in Tokyo on Sunday, May 25, with a brand new buzz minimize and walked the occasion’s carpet alongside Stranger Things costar and buddy Gaten Matarazzo, 22.

Known for his lengthier hair, the “Choose the Latter” singer put his new look on full show as he smiled for snaps with Matarazzo. He paired the recent trim with a glittery black-and-white go well with jacket and trousers, in addition to black boots.

The pair introduced the Best Continuing Series award to Demon Slayer.

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Wolfhard and Matarazzo’s look in Tokyo comes earlier than the fifth and ultimate season of Stranger Things hits Netflix someday this 12 months. Wolfhard has appeared on the collection as Mike Wheeler for the reason that present premiered in July 2016.

As he defined to PEOPLE in April, finishing filming “was positively so much.” He and Matarazzo star within the sci-fi hit alongside Millie Bobby Brown, Noah Schnapp, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink, Joe Keery and Maya Hawke.

“I used to be so proud of my character’s ending,” Wolfhard stated. “I used to be happy, however I used to be additionally very confused and unhappy, but additionally very joyful.”

“I felt like I used to be in a dream or one thing. None of it felt actual. I do not know, it felt good,” he added of the ultimate season.

Wolfhard defined on the time that he “could not imagine it in any respect” when filming the final scene for Stranger Things‘ ultimate season, sharing that it “did not actually begin to enter focus till the following day.”

“It was like an emotional hangover,” he stated. “But it ended very well, and I simply have such constructive issues to say about everybody.”

Wolfhard added: “The forged all stayed for the final day, we had been all there collectively. It was actually nice to be round one another.”

Aside from hair transformations and the forthcoming closing chapter of the collection that put him on the map, he just lately launched his directorial debut, Hell of a Summer, and is about to share his debut solo music venture, Happy Birthday, in June.

As for buzz cuts, he is not the one star opting to ditch longer hair for {the summertime}, both. Brad Pitt was additionally photographed this week in Los Angeles sporting a clear buzz minimize, paying homage to the shaved-head look he rocked within the early aughts. Austin Butler was additionally snapped with a recent buzz minimize in December.