“She feels pretty natural to me now, but…”: Natalia Dyer Reveals the Real Reason Behind Her Transformation Into Stranger Thing’s Nancy Wheeler

Published 05/22/2022, 3:30 PM EDT

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It has been six long years since we first saw the people of Hawkins trying to fight supernatural beings. And over the years, the actors of Stranger Things have grown in ways no one imagined. All of them have established great careers for themselves and understood their characters better. After playing their characters for four seasons, all actors know their roles better than anyone. However, Natalia Dyer credits some other reasons that have influenced her character over their years apart from herself.

Natalia is most known for playing Nancy Wheeler in Stranger Things. And has been playing her since season one, but who can better understand the character better than her? Let us find out.

Natalia Dyer reveals the true inspiration behind Nancy

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The greatest thing about seeing the same actors playing the same roles over the years without being recast is that they understand the character better. They grow in their characters so much that they can now judge what’s better for their role than any other person.

However, when Natalia, in a recent press conference with Maya Hawke (Robin), Joe Keery (Steve), and the newcomer Joseph Quinn (Eddie), while talking about the inspiration behind her character.

She said, “She (Nancy) feels pretty natural to me now, but a lot of inspiration comes from the Duffer brothers and how they’ve written her character.”

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Natalia then went on to commemorate the Duffer Brothers for creating an exceptional character in the series. She feels the brothers did a ‘lovely job’ in creating Nancy.

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The Duffer Brothers certainly are a huge influence on the series. It is their vision of an 80s horror that has made the show immensely popular that it is today. But a lot of the credit goes to Natalia as well for playing Nancy.

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Her character has indeed evolved over the years and now, in the most awaited fourth season, we will be seeing her again for sure.

What are your thoughts on Nancy? Is she a great character that you like seeing in Stranger Things or not? Feel free to share your answer with us in the comments.

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Baheen Qadri

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Baheen Qadri is an entertainment writer at Netflix Junkie. Currently, he is pursuing BA in Mass comm Hons from SCMC Pune. He loves binge-watching films and TV series on Netflix.

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