Stranger Things casting just peaked with Terminator legend

Stranger Things season 5 has brought Linda Hamilton onboard for a mystery role.

Best recognised for her brutal turn as Sarah Connor across three (excluding an uncredited voice cameo) Terminator blockbusters, the 66-year-old's involvement was announced at Netflix's global TUDUM fan event, which live-streamed from Brazil this weekend.

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Hamilton follows in the footsteps of fellow 80's legends Robert Englund and Cary Elwes, who played Victor Creel and Mayor Larry Kline in Stranger Things.

In other news, Dr. Martin Brenner star Matthew Modine previously told talkshow host Jonathan Ross that he sought to protect youngster Millie Bobby Brown when the show first exploded.

"Netflix is in over 190 territories around the world. So what Millie was subject to... global. What she was exposed to - and what all the children on this show were exposed to - was a kind of fame and popularity and notoriety that never existed in the entertainment industry," he shared.

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"Over the course of my career, the young actors and actresses whose lives were destroyed by that kind of fame and money and everything. It can be very destructive and disorienting.

"I just wanted to do everything I could to make sure she was safe and she understood that a career is a rollercoaster, that there's ups and downs to it."

As for the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, co-creator Matt Duffer apparently made the streaming service's executives cry with his big pitch.

"The only other times I've seen them cry were like budget meetings," he quipped.

Stranger Things seasons 1-4 are now streaming on Netflix.

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