Stranger Things Season 5 Was Bigger Than Any Terminator Movie, Says Linda Hamilton

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Linda Hamilton is set to star in the highly anticipated upcoming Stranger Things Season 5, and recently revealed that the making of the season was bigger than any Terminator movie she’s been on.

What did Linda Hamilton say about Stranger Things Season 5?

Speaking to ComingSoon, Hamilton was asked about what it felt like filming the upcoming fifth season of the hit Netflix series. Hamilton recounted that just the length of the production (a full year) was longer than she’d ever been on any production.

“Well, because it was a very long haul. We took a year to shoot eight episodes, so I’ve never been on a project for a year,” Hamilton said. “Six months is the biggest. Terminator, Dante’s Peak, things like that used to be six-month shoots, and hardly anybody does that anymore.

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“But to carry on for a year, and because scheduling was huge and it changed all the time just because the production and weather and this and that. So it was being in a state of readiness to race to Atlanta for an entire year at any given moment.”

Stranger Things Season 5 will star Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers, David Harbour as Jim Hopper, Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson, Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair, Sadie Sink as Maxine “Max” Mayfield, Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler, Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers, Joe Keery as Steve Harrington, Maya Hawke as Robin Buckley, Priah Ferguson as Erica Sinclair, Jamie Campbell Bower as Vecna, Cara Buono as Karen Wheeler, Amybeth McNulty as Vickie, and Linda Hamilton in an undisclosed role.

Stranger ThingsSeason 4set a record for Netflix,having been viewed for more than 287 million hours during the week of May 23-30. That’s not only good enough for the top spot of the week for Netflix, but it’s also more than enough to break the record for the streaming platform’s biggest-ever premiere weekend for an English-language series. That was previously held by the second season ofBridgerton(193 million hours).