<em>Stranger Things’</em> David Harbour on Season 2, Ordinary Heroes and Why Movies Need Soul

David Harbour plays Stranger Things’ leading man, Chief Jim Hopper, a sheriff so destroyed by his daughter’s death that he hates the cutest kids in 1980s Hawkins, Ind., for having a pulse when she doesn’t. Still, he becomes determined to rescue Joyce’s missing son or die trying.

Now that the show has ruled pop culture this summer, he doesn't feel like he has to say yes to a project he doesn't believe in anymore. “There’s a big shift.