Cara Buono Reflects on Stranger Things and New Rom-Com Role
Dear good couldn’t help but take her young Foreign things Costares under her wing return during the day – and she is proud to see how much they have accomplished since.
“I love to think that I am the Defacto mother. They are so greated now, probably nobody wants to hear advice from me like a typical mom,” said Buono, 54 years old US Weekly About the dynamics with her Foreign things COSTAIRES. “But I like all children and I love to watch them grow up.”
Good – which is a new film Things like that Hits in theaters on Friday May 16 – recognized that during the Foreign things The years of adolescence of the stars are typical children who often did not listen to their mothers “, so she was not afraid to intervene if necessary.
Foreign things was created in 2016 and launched the career of Finn Wolfhard,, Millie Bobby Brown,, Holarazzo holes,, McLaughlin Caleb,, Noah snap And more. Season 4 was created in 2022 and the final of the long -awaited fifth season is expected to drop this year. Buono represents Karen Wheeler, mom to Mike (Wolfhard) and Nancy (Natalia Dyer) Wheeler.
All the time of Buono in the series did not completely revolve around adolescents. One of the main arcs of Karen came during season 3 of the series, when she and Billy Hargrove (Dacre Montgomery) form a mutual attraction. The story was slightly controversial – Billy was still in high school at the time – but Karen finally chose to refuse the case.
Buono, for his part, confessed that she was surprised by the scenario given the Solid age gap Between the characters.
“It was almost as if it was a little kind of detour of the show because just the subjects that evoked an older woman and a younger man and a flirt and perhaps having an affair,” she recalls. “It seems apart from Foreign things world, but they approach it with humor. I think they also infuse it with emotivity as they do [when] Karen decided that she could not leave because of her family. »»

Thanks to all the ups and downs of his character, Buono has never ceased to love the role of Karen – and remains surprised and delighted by the distribution Foreign things has become in Zeitgeist pop culture.
“I always knew it was a special project when I read the first script, but I was really surprised by which phenomenon it became,” she explained. “And I am really proud of the stories that we have told and connections that we have established with the public worldwide. It is a very rare thing that happens today with shows.”
She continued: “It was just a rare and really beautiful experience to be part of something that resonated with people of generations who really don’t happen. I really love playing Karen.
While the flagship series will soon have goodbye to fans, the word of the increase continues to grow. The beloved franchise recently launched the play Stranger Things: The First Shadowwhich serves as a prequel to the original series. Buono recently found the rest of the actors to celebrate the new production.
“It was so fun. It was the first time that I had seen a bunch of people and it was a very good night, ”she recalls We. “The show was epic and wonderful, scary and the last time [the cast] We are seen, we finished the show. So a lot of tears and a few months have passed now. It is therefore definitely a feeling of moving on to this soft-bitter way. “”
Buono noted that she particularly liked to see the “high school” version of her character on stage. “It’s just really surreal by walking on the set and far from the whole, and I am really grateful for every second,” she added.
With END Foreign things On the horizon, Buono is now moving away from the supernatural horror and bends his comic muscles Things like that. The Rom-Com, which features Joey Pollari And Talisman Maxfollows two men who share the same name as they fall in love. Buono, for his role, plays in Margie.
“I think it’s just a big love story. I think it’s totally relatable, even if it is two men,” she said We. “The emotions are really universal, and that’s what I really liked. It does not try to make a point on being strange, it is just telling this beautiful and honest story to fall in love and I think that the more we see that on the screen, the more normal and celebrated it becomes.”
Buono stressed that authentic “representation declarations” and queer love stories belong to romantic genre space.
“This is connection. Almost illness, but then a connection,” she said We. “I hope that people will just see that it is really special, and that it is a love story that does not focus on warnings or stereotypes, just something really real and funny and full of hope for people who are looking for love in their lives.”
Things like that First in theaters on Friday May 16.
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