Maya Hawke

Movie Stranger Things

You and Joe are tied together for an entire episode. What was that like?

Basically, when you read it you’re like, “Oh that sounds great.” And then you’re doing it and you’re like, “Oh I can’t get up to pee. I’m just really tied to this chair and it just sucks.” So the things you think are going to be fun are never the things that are fun. And the things that you don’t think, you don’t even notice, are the things that end up being the most fun. I think we were tied to those chairs for like six or seven hours.

In the same scene, you have to act insanely high. How did you keep up the giggles?

We both just really did heroin. I’m kidding. I’m kidding. We just kept trying to make each other laugh. Kept trying to find new ways to find the scene funny, and it was actually really hard because we were both trying to figure out what kind of high we were. What were we being poisoned with?? And so we were both trying to find it together and make sure we were both having the same reaction to drugs and so it was kind of a complicated thing.

“It was very complicated. We shot that scene where [she and co-star Joe Keery] were tied up over a period of three days, and Joe and I were really tied up,” Hawke revealed, adding that her wrists were bound and she was tied to a wooden chair during the uncomfortable, three-day shoot.