David Harbour

Press reports claimed that Millie Bobby Brown had filed an internal complaint against Harbour alleging bullying and harassment before the final season of Stranger Things. Variety subsequently reported that sources familiar with the matter confirmed an internal investigation and its resolution, without disclosing detailed allegations or an adverse finding against Harbour.

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Lily Allen's album West End Girl, released after the couple's separation, portrays the breakdown of a marriage involving infidelity, an open relationship, emotional manipulation and other conduct attributed to a husband widely identified publicly as Harbour. Allen explained that elements drew on her marital experience while presenting the work as a mixture of truth and fiction.

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Harbour criticised extreme forms of method acting, considering certain approaches dangerous and ineffective. In particular, he said that Daniel Day-Lewis's explanations of his process seemed like 'nonsense' to him, fuelling the recurring Hollywood debate about the limits of immersion in a role.

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Following Hellboy's critical and commercial failure, Harbour suggested that the reboot had partly failed before filming even began because some viewers attached to Guillermo del Toro's and Ron Perlman's films did not want a new version. Commentators challenged this explanation, arguing that it downplayed the film's own shortcomings.

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In an investigation into the troubled production of Hellboy, two sources claimed that Harbour sometimes left the set and refused requests from director Neil Marshall for additional takes. Other accounts mentioned rewrites and production tensions.

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While accepting the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble for Stranger Things, Harbour delivered a speech against fear, exclusion and bullies, concluding that the series' characters would 'punch some people in the face' when they targeted the weak and marginalised. The phrase was adopted as a political slogan and criticised by some commentators as legitimising violence.

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