{"id":17877,"date":"2022-07-04T11:55:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T09:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1673036"},"modified":"2022-07-04T12:08:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T10:08:18","slug":"stranger-things-joseph-quinn-really-played-the-guitar-in-that-epic-season-finale","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/stranger-things-joseph-quinn-really-played-the-guitar-in-that-epic-season-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things\u2019 Joseph Quinn really played the guitar in that epic season finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 04 July 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn has revealed that it really was him playing the guitar in the show\u2019s epic season 4 finale.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com<\/a>, the Eddie Munson actor explained that the Duffer brothers texted him towards the beginning of the pandemic asking if he could play \u2013 but it wasn\u2019t until he saw the script that he realised how big a task he\u2019d taken on.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey texted me and they said, like, can you play the guitar?\u201d he said. \u201cI said yes. That was about two months into the pandemic, maybe three months, and then a month later, they sent me the last script.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was like \u2018Are you serious?\u2019 They were like, \u2018Yeah.\u2019 And I thought \u2018OK.\u2019 So I went and bought a guitar and then practised manically for months until we ended up shooting the thing.\u201d<\/p>

Asked if it was mostly him playing, he confirmed it was but added that there were certain parts where he had to rely on a little expert help.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was trying to be realistic with kind of what I could do,\u201d Quinn explained. \u201cLike I\u2019ve been playing [guitar] since I was a kid but I\u2019m no virtuoso. So I had most of the song down, but for the solo, we had to fly someone, a black belt metal guitarist, in to help with that. The rest of it? I had a stab at it, yeah.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was so thrilling to do on the day \u2013 me and Gaten [Matarazzo] were on top of the caravan in the middle of the Upside Down playing Metallica. And it was great fun!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joseph Quinn as Eddie Munson in Stranger Things<\/span><\/figcaption> Netflix<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

And it sounds like it wasn\u2019t just Quinn who enjoyed the experience, with the rest of the cast and crew also relishing the chance to watch some live music after the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the timing of it was brilliant,\u201d he said. \u201cFor the whole crew, it felt like the first time that people had been in a live music situation since the pandemic, so it was a joyous kind of celebration on the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Huw Fullerton.<\/em><\/p>\n

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