GLHF recently got the opportunity to sit down for a chat with David Harbour, and it turns out the Stranger Things actor has a huge penchant for video games, with World of Warcraft in particular a huge part in his life.
Harbour, who portrays the gruff chief of police Jim Hopper in Stranger Things, says that he used to be in a World of Warcraft raiding guild, which he apparently spent a little too much time with at times. In 2008, when working on a movie called Revolutionary Road with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, he would run home on lunch breaks to try and get more raids in.
He says that finding a right balance with gaming can be difficult, and that moderation is really key to avoiding isolation.
“The danger of gaming is isolation,” Harbour said, “I’ve struggled with mental health-type ideas in the past, and I know that being alone for a long time staring at a screen in…