{"id":16757,"date":"2022-06-10T12:16:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T10:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1660153"},"modified":"2022-06-10T12:39:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T10:39:24","slug":"stranger-things-star-predicted-season-4-plot-twist-back-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/stranger-things-star-predicted-season-4-plot-twist-back-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things star predicted season 4 plot twist back in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Flora Carr\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 10 June 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>A video has resurfaced of <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sci-fi\/stranger-things-4-part-2-release\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Stranger Things<\/a> star Gaten Matarazzo appearing to predict that big season 4 plot twist \u2013 six years before the season aired.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2016, Matarazzo (who has played Dustin Henderson since the first season) shared his favourite Stranger Things fan theory during a filmed <a href=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fbYIo2uOlDo&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">BUILD interview<\/a> in 2016.<\/p> <p>\u201cOther test subjects besides Eleven\u2026 most of them are dead, but others were banished to the Upside Down,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause they were in the Upside Down for so long, it had an effect on them that they transformed into what was the monster.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;\" data-dnt=\"&quot;true&quot;\"><p lang=\"&quot;en&quot;\" dir=\"&quot;ltr&quot;\">Gaten Matarazzo&#8217;s favorite <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StrangerThings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;\">#StrangerThings<\/a> fan theory really ended up happening ????<br\/><br\/>???? TheThings <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/t.co\/nlH0ogZop3&quot;\">pic.twitter.com\/nlH0ogZop3<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Culture Crave ???? (@CultureCrave) <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/CultureCrave\/status\/1534975243596419072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;\">June 9, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async=\"\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot;\" charset=\"&quot;utf-8&quot;\"\/><p>In season 4,\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sci-fi\/stranger-things-season-4-jamie-campbell-bower\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Jamie Campbell Bower<\/a> (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) joined the <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sci-fi\/stranger-things-season-4-cast\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Stranger Things cast<\/a> as the seemingly mild-mannered orderly Peter Ballard \u2013 only for it to be revealed, via flashback, that he was in fact One: the original test subject in the same Hawkins programme as Eleven.<\/p>\n<p>However, after One murdered the majority of the other children in the programme, Eleven banished him to the Upside Down <b>\u2013<\/b>\u00a0where he transformed into\u00a0the villainous character of <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sci-fi\/stranger-things-4-villain-explained\/&quot;\">Vecna<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--aspect=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/vecna-stranger-things-3270d75.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=299%2C199,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/vecna-stranger-things-3270d75.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=299%2C199,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" 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&amp; Dragons antagonist, wreaked havoc in season 4 by seeking out and possessing traumatised teens from his lair in the Upside Down, before murdering them in particularly gruesome ways.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong><a class=\"&quot;standard-card-new__article-title\" qa-card-link=\"\" href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sci-fi\/stranger-things-4-part-2-release\/&quot;\">Stranger Things season 4, part 2 debuts explosive first-look trailer<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sci-fi\/stranger-things-season-5-time-jump-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Stranger Things season 5 to feature time jump<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul><div class=\"&quot;post__content-end\" row=\"\" hidden-print=\"\">\n<div class=\"&quot;editor-content\" mb-lg=\"\" hidden-print=\"\" js-piano-locked-content=\"\">\n<p><strong>Stranger Things 4 part 1 was released on <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/netflix\/&quot;\">Netflix<\/a> on Friday 27th May 2022, with more coming on 1st July 2022. Stranger Things seasons 1-3 are now available on Netflix.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out our guides to the\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"&quot;s1&quot;\"><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/what-to-watch-tv\/best-tv-shows-netflix\/&quot;\"><b>best series on Netflix<\/b><\/a><\/span><span class=\"&quot;s2&quot;\"><b>\u00a0and the\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/movies\/what-to-watch\/netflix-best-movies\/&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;s3&quot;\"><b>best movies on Netflix<\/b><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><strong>If you\u2019re looking for more to watch, check out our\u00a0<a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/tv-listings\/&quot;\">TV Guide<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><b><a title=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/gb\/&quot;\" href=\"\/\/www.netflix.com\/gb\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Sign up for Netflix from \u00a36.99 a month<\/a>. 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