Stranger Things’ Gaten Matarazzo Shares His Creepiest Fan Interaction
For the better part of a decade, Gaten Matarazzo has portrayed Dustin Henderson on Netflix’s Stranger Things. He’s grown up in front of our collective eyes ahead of the upcoming fifth and final season. Matarazzo has met a lot of fans since the first season premiered in 2016. But there was one particularly creepy fan encounter that left him shocked.
Via US Magazine, Matarazzo recently appeared on Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside of You podcast where he related his bizarre and deeply uncomfortable meeting with a much older woman.
“I did one very recently–and this is not very funny, but the reactions around it were quite funny–where this woman in her 40s said straight up, ‘I’ve had a crush on you since you were 13,'” said Matarazzo. “And I was like, ‘That’s upsetting.’’ I’m sure she just meant, ‘Aw, this kid’s cute.’ But then she doubled down.”