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The Amazing Story Behind 'Freddy Kreuger' Actor Robert Englund Getting Cast on ‘Stranger Things’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. The fourth season of
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Speaker 1: Stranger Things leans into its eighties horror references more than
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Speaker 1: ever for its final round, with subtle and not so
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Speaker 1: subtle nods to everything from Hell Raiser to the original
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Speaker 1: made for TV mini series version of it. But Stranger
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Speaker 1: Things creators the Duffer Brothers tell Nammy a Nightmare on
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Speaker 1: Elm Street one and three probably influenced the season most.
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Speaker 1: In fact, they even cast Robert England, who famously played
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Speaker 1: Freddy Krueger in the Elm Street franchise, which surprisingly wasn't
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Speaker 1: their idea. It was Robert's ross. Dupper, says Roberts submitted
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Speaker 1: an audition tape vying for a role without them knowing,
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Speaker 1: adding I wish we had been brilliant enough to think
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Speaker 1: of casting him. I cannot tell you how surreal it
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Speaker 1: is to be watching audition tape after audition tape and
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Speaker 1: then suddenly say, is that Robert England in a bathtub?
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Speaker 1: It's a dream come true to work with him. He
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Speaker 1: gets to do something really emotional and effective. Season four
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