David Harbour is using quarantine to plan the future of ‘Stranger Things’

In the premiere episode of The Times’ new TV podcast, “Can’t Stop Watching,� host and staff writer Yvonne Villarreal asks “Stranger Things� star David Harbour about his life since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, which he’s waiting out in the U.K. with his girlfriend and her two children:

I did that thing that people talk about: I was watching [New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s] broadcast. I just picked up a bag and I threw a couple clothes in it. I drove to the airport, and I just bought a ticket. I mean, I had a mask and I had, like, all this hand sanitizer... I have days where it’s so incredible I get to spend this time with these people I really care about, and then I have days where I’m like, “I just want to go to a coffee shop, and I want someone to come over and hug me.� So it’s this weird mixture. I have great days and I have horrible days.

While production of Season 4 of “Stranger Things� is on hold for now, we caught up with Harbour to discuss what his character, gruff small-town police chief Jim Hopper, would do in quarantine; the lie he told Aaron Sorkin while working on “The Newsroom�; and connecting with the Duffer brothers to plan the future of Netflix’s sci-fi/horror hit. Listen to the full interview on Episode 1 of “Can’t Stop Watching� here:

And be sure tune in later this week for our interviews with “Pose’s� Mj Rodriguez and America’s dad, “This Is Us� star Milo Ventimiglia.