David Harbour reveals biggest regrets over Stranger Things finale

David Harbour wishes he'd done more for the Stranger Things finale.

The 51-year-old actor played chief of police Jim Hopper in all five seasons of the Netflix sci-fi horror hit, and while his character had a fitting ending with Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) in the show's final ever episode earlier this year, David had more ideas for his alter ego.

Speaking to On The Go with Deadline, the star admitted he wanted to see Hopper gets more time with both Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard).

He added: "I wanted even a scene with Joe Keery. But stories have to end in a certain way and they don’t get to go on and do whatever fan fiction I’m writing in my head.”

David was speaking at a Stranger Things 5 event at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery to discuss the final season alongside castmates Jamie Campbell Bower (Vecna), Noah Schnapp (Will Byers) and Natalie Dyer (Nancy Wheeler).

Asked about his own ideal ending, Jamie quipped: "I probably would’ve liked to have ended everyone, as Vecna."

The cast were joined by producer and director Shawn Levy, and the show's creators Matt and Ross Duffer.

The Duffer Brothers were delighted with the final shot of the show, which saw the "kids" reunited in the Wheeler basement for one last game of Dungeons and Dragons.

Matt recalled: "It was the most emotional scene to write, because it was the last scene we were ever writing [for these characters] and definitely the most emotional scene to film."

Almost everyone agreed that the scene stuck with them the most, including Noah.

He pondered: “It was such a culmination of the 10 years.

"I have the worst memory. I forget everything, and that is just something I cannot get out of my head — every hour of that day.”

Natalie agreed that her own final day filming, which saw her on the roof of WSQK, will remain "a core memory for the rest of my life".

Meanwhile, David recently admitted to feeling a little envious of some of his younger co-stars for a very surprising reason.

Speaking at an event in Los Angeles, he shared: "These kids were just enjoyable as hell.

"A lot of kid actors that you work with are very actor-y, and part of the strength of the actors that they formed were that, at their essence, they were just kids.

"So, even during takes, they would fart and do things that you just couldn't believe that you had the relaxation to do that in front of a camera. I was like, I would dream of being able to do that and not being self-conscious in that way!"