Dacre Montgomery forced into break after ‘Stranger Things’ role

Dacre Montgomery sat down for an interview with People where he opened up about his life after starring in Stranger Things.

“I think with Stranger Things — as any big show on Netflix — it's kind of like you lose your anonymity overnight,” the actor explained. “And it was amazing and overwhelming and a combination of many things, and I felt really lucky and really fortunate to have that opportunity.”

He continued, “But I think for me, I grew up really wanting to work with all tour directors on arthouse films and really explore how far I can push myself in terms of character development and really, really fall in love with stories. And when Stranger Things came out, I felt like … I was really being pushed in a commercial direction.”

That’s why he felt he had to take a break, “That sort of stuff takes time to kind of reverse engineer a career that's going one way into a different direction. It takes time, and I can't just generate a story, an amazing story [and] an amazing director in front of my eyes.”

Hinting at future projects, Montgomery said, “Now I kind of feel like I'm in a really, really good space with a couple of great movies coming up that fit the bill… in terms of where I wanted to be.”

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