This article contains spoilers about season 3 of “Stranger Things”.
If you thought that “Stanger Things” characters Robin and Steve (played by Maya Hawke and Joe Keery) would have made a good romantic pair, that is because they almost were.
Hawke told the Wall Street Journal that her coming-out-story wasn’t originally part of the script.
“Throughout filming, we started to feel like she and [Steve] shouldn’t get together, and that she’s gay. Even when I go back and watch earlier episodes, it just seems like the most obvious decision ever,” she said.
Mid-season is when Hawke, the Duffer Brothers and Shawn Levy came to the conclusion that Robin should be a lesbian.
“The Duffer brothers and I, and Shawn Levy had a lot of conversations throughout shooting and it wasn’t really until we were shooting episode four and five, I think, that we made the final decision,” she said. “It was kind of a collaborative conversation, and I’m really, really happy with the way that it went.”
Viewers thought that Robin and Steve were bound to end up together and many weren’t sure what to think of the end result.
“Sometimes we can have empathy for people on screen that we wouldn’t normally have empathy for in real life,” Hawke added. “If I can hope for anything it’s that maybe some people fell in love with Robin and that helped them fall in love with girls who love girls and boys who love boys.”
Playing Robin has catapulted Hawke, the daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke, into stardom as viewers relate to her.
“I loved Robin, and I gave her everything I had, and I tried to make her as human and multidimensional as I could, and I wanted people to love her. But honestly, when you bring a new character onto a TV show that is already so beloved, it’s very rare that it’s received that well… and I’m so grateful that people fell in love with Robin the way that I did,” she revealed.
