David Harbour.
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David Harbour had his hands full with fighting Vecna and raising a teenager. The actor dropped out of Tony Gilroy’s (Andor, Michael Clayton) upcoming film, Behemoth!, Searchlight Pictures confirmed to Variety on January 7. Reportedly, he cited that he was overwhelmed with the promotional aspects for the final season of Stranger Things and needed space and time to rest. He was set to star alongside the previously confirmed Pedro Pascal and Olivia Wilde in the film. It has been reported that Harbour’s role has already been recast, though the actor is not yet known. Hopefully, it’s someone equally bearish.
Harbour was largely absent in the Stranger Things finale press, including group interviews. He has been open in the past about struggling with alcoholism and his diagnosis with bipolar disorder. “Here’s the interesting thing — something I’ve never truly spoken about publicly,” he said on Marc Maron’s WTF! podcast in 2018. “I was actually into this Catholicism thing … and I was sober for like a year and a half. I was 25, and I actually did have a manic episode. I was diagnosed as bipolar.” He was put in a facility at that time. Harbour is still set to appear in some 2026 productions, including Avengers: Doomsday, as his character Red Guardian, and Violent Night 2. Next Christmas, wish to slayer Santa that Harbour is ready to promote his films.
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