Dacre Montgomery: ‘The stakes are higher in new Stranger Things’

Dacre Montgomery has teased fans will be satisfied by the upcoming third season of Stranger Things.
The 24-year-old stars as resident bad boy Billy Hargrove in the sci-fi epic and, in an interview with British publication Mr. Porter, the actor revealed his character will evolve from a “bully” to a “really raw and evil” antagonist in the new episodes.
“The stakes are so much higher, and I feel like the viewers, the people who’ve fallen in love with the show, are going to get everything they wanted out of it,” the Australian-born star shared. “They’re increasing the storyline, exploding the narrative, really picking apart every character, and that’s what I’m excited about.”
Dacre went on to confess that, while the role is “so far away from (him) as a person”, he was able to play the villain by channelling all the “maniacal incidents or characters” in his life.
“I guess there’s a facet of that in all of us… I’m just channelling it. I feel like it’s so far away from me as a person,” he reflected. “What I’ve endeavoured to do is take a group of the maniacal incidents or characters that have made themselves present in my life and combine them into a character, and tried to make it as real as possible.”
Stranger Things season three stars Millie Bobby Brown, Noah Schapp and Winona Ryder, and debuts on Netflix on 4 July (19).