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Stranger Things 5: Final Day Felt Like "Toy Story 3" Moment: Wolfhard

Finn Wolfhard on how it felt on the final day of Stranger Things 5 and what it was like filming "Lord of the Rings" style for the past year.

A little more than a month ago, we passed along a look at what Millie Bobby Brown had to share with the team behind Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer's Stranger Things 5. Now, Finn Wolfhard is revealing what the past year of filming and the final day was like on a personal level. "It was incredibly emotional, obviously," Wolfhard shared during an interview with Variety at Sundance in support of his film, A24's The Legend of Ochi. "It's the last 10 years of my life. Also, for the creators, the Duffer Bros. started when they were 30, and now they are 40. Everyone had a long journey and shared it together. My whole childhood was there. It was sort of the 'Toy Story 3' moment of leaving your toys behind. It was really special," he added.

In terms of the filming timeline that ran for a year, Wolfhard offered an analogy to director Peter Jackson's epic production. "We had a long last year. We shot sort of 'Lord of the Rings' style with a year-long shoot. It was a great way to go out and very intense. I feel like it couldn't have ended better," Wolfhard explained. "['The Legend of Ochi'] is the first movie that I'm promoting since, so it feels like post-graduation or something. I am excited for everything to come out."

In honor of the most recent "Stranger Things Day," Noah Schnapp (Will Byers) took fans on a tour of Castle Byers (the Upside Down version, so it's missing a few personal items) on the last day that they will ever film on that set. "It's kind of sentimental because I started in this exact tent when I was 10 years old, and now, 10 years later, I'm turning 20. So, it's sad to say goodbye," Schnapp shared. "I remember filming here with Winona when I was like 10 or 11 years old. This was one of the first places that I ever shot, and it's like home to me," he added. Here's a look at the video that was shared on the Netflix's series Instagram broadcast channel:

We're looking at Episode 1: "The Crawl," Episode 2: "The Vanishing of …," Episode 3: "The Turnbow Trap," Episode 4: "Sorcerer," Episode 5: "Shock Jock," Episode 6: "Escape from Camazotz," Episode 7: "The Bridge," and Episode 8: "The Rightside Up." Now, here's a look back at the announcement teaser that was released earlier today:

Stranger Things 5 "Like Season One on Steroids"

During an interview with The Guardian, Ross & Matt discuss the pressures of ending the series in a way that works creatively and satisfies the audience's expectations and how this final run with these characters will feel "like season one on steroids."

"The nine hours that precede the ending can be amazing. But if you stumble at that one-yard line, people will never forgive you for that. And they'll forget the previous nine hours of awesomeness! So it's amazing what they will forgive if you score a touchdown at the end," Matt Duffer explained when discussing their feelings on how series finales are viewed. "Endings of shows are like opening a restaurant in terms of the success-failure rate – there's an 80% failure rate, I'd say. But I think one very particular way to fail is to attempt to appease everybody."

Matt continued, "We have a huge variety of fans that span a huge age range, and I'm sure they have all their own ideas of how they want the show to end. But we're not consulting social media on this. Then you just hope and pray that it resonates. But it was funny: once we got there, it just felt right, and we're going to go for it!"

As the duo had stated previously, the universe will live on after Stranger Things 5 – but the characters that viewers have grown to love & connect with will see their stories end with the fifth season. With that much on the line, the Duffer Brothers aren't going out quietly. "This season – it's like season one on steroids. It's the biggest it's ever been in terms of scale, but it has been really fun, because everyone's back together in Hawkins: the boys and Eleven interacting more in line with how it was in season one. And, yes, there may be spin-offs, but the story of Eleven and Dustin and Lucas and Hopper, their stories are done here. That's it," Matt shared – before adding, "Outside of the play. So if you want to see more of some of them, go see the play."

And don't forget that Nell Fisher, Jake Connelly, Alex Breaux, and the amazing Linda Hamilton have joined the cast for the fifth and final season – here's a look back at the video announcing Hamilton's casting:

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