“Nashville” and “Smash” vet Will Chase has joined “Stranger Things‘” anticipated second season in a pivotal recurring role, TVLine reported.
He will play Neil Mayfield, the father of a family of recent transplants to Hawkins Indiana from California. They believe he’s the dad of the two new kids in town, played by American Odyssey‘s Sadie Sink and Power Rangers‘ Dacre Montgomery.
The site recaps new info, including that “Mad About You‘s” Paul Reiser and Lord of the Rings‘ Sean Astin have signed on for recurring roles, with the former playing a high-ranking member within the Department of Energy on a ‘clean-up’ assignment and the latter portraying a kindhearted former nerd who went to high school with Joyce (Winona Ryder) and Hopper (David Harbour). Danish actress Linnea Berthelsen, meanwhile, will play an emotionally damaged, magnetic young woman who suffered a great loss as a child. Although she does not live in Hawkins, she is mysteriously connected to the town’s supernatural events.
“Strangers Things” returns on Halloween.
