David Harbour finally publicly reunited with several of his Stranger Things costars greater than six months after skipping quite a few events amid reported behind-the-scenes issues.
Harbour, 51, attended the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations Presents Stranger Things event on Thursday, May 21, with Natalia Dyer, Noah Schnapp and Jamie Campbell Bower. The identical group — plus creators Matt and Ross Duffer and director Shawn Levy — were also in attendance at Netflix’s Stranger Things Emmys FYSEE Event at Hollywood Perpetually Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Millie Bobby Brown, meanwhile, was not at either of Thursday’s events.
Stranger Things, which premiered in 2016, focused on a fictional town where a series of supernatural events took place and caused mystery and mayhem. The hit Netflix series became a pop-culture phenomenon, nevertheless it was also known for long gaps between filming and lengthy episode runtimes. Season 5 concluded nearly a decade after Stranger Things originally premiered.
Off screen, the show made headlines in November 2025 when reports claimed that Brown, 22, had “filed a harassment and bullying claim” against Harbour “before they began shooting the last season.”
In response to the Every day Mail, Brown claimed she was bullied and harassed by Harbour on set, however the grievance didn’t include allegations of sexual misconduct.
Brown and Harbour placed on a united front on the Stranger Things season 5 premiere later that month.
“After all I felt secure. I mean, we’ve worked together for 10 years,” Brown told Deadline on the time. “I feel secure with everyone on that set.”
Stranger Things costars Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour have a protracted and sophisticated relationship. The 2 have worked closely on the show of their roles as Eleven and her adoptive father, Jim Hopper, respectively, for a decade, starting when Brown was 11 years old. Now, Brown and Harbour’s offscreen relationship is being dissected following […]
She continued: “You naturally just … you recognize, you’ve been doing it for therefore long. We also play father and daughter so naturally, now we have a more in-depth bond than the remaining because now we have had some really intense scenes together, especially in season 2. David and I actually have an ideal relationship. We work really closely together within the scenes and preparing for the scenes and I actually am excited to see … for everybody to see the labor of affection and labor we’ve put into the closure of our relationship and what that appears like.”
Harbour, for his part, hadn’t addressed the reports. The actor, who had been going through a messy, high-profile split from wife Lily Allen, reportedly had multiple instances by which he exhibited concerning behavior in public around the identical time.
Harbour subsequently skipped several planned appearances and dropped out of a starring role within the movie Behemoth!
“I’m protective of the people and the truth of my life. There’s no use in that type of engaging [with rumors] since it’s all based on hysterical hyperbole,” Harbour told GQ Hype in April 2025 about his personal life, adding that he didn’t need to encourage a “salacious s***show of humiliation.”