Joseph Quinn Detained By Authorities Before Being Recognised As Eddie Munson

Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn has revealed how he was detained by airport staff before being recognised as everyone’s favourite metalhead, Eddie Munson – having been saved by a worker who firmly told his colleagues: “Leave Eddie alone.” 

Quinn joined us for the most recent series of the hit Netflix sci-fi show, winning everyone over as the loveable leader of the Hellfire Club at Hawkins High. 

But despite being one of this year’s biggest breakout stars, it seems not everyone recognises him as the guitar-shredding rocker – as he learnt the hard way recently while trying to get into America. 

Speaking about a recent trip on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon yesterday, Monday 25 July, he recalled how he was shuffled into a side room by airport security, who questioned him on why he was visiting the States. 

He said: “I was held up at immigration yesterday… and I was taken into, I guess what you could call it more of a dungeon,” Quinn told Fallon. “And I was waiting for about 20 minutes and then I was summoned to this desk where someone asked me, ‘what are you doing in the United States, Sir?’ 

“I said, ‘I’m actually here to meet Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show.’ And he didn’t believe me. 

"And one of his colleagues looked over at me, looked at him, said: 'Leave Eddie alone.'" 

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Thankfully, Quinn was eventually allowed to go through, though not before the staff member who had recognised him took the opportunity to ask a few quick questions about his character. 

“Do you come back next season?” they had asked, to which Quinn replied: "I don't know." 

The airport worker then added: "You'd better." 

While we can all be hopeful that Eddie will make a triumphant return to our screens, it doesn't sound like we should be holding our breath. 

Quinn recently told Entertainment Weekly that he felt ‘gutted’ to find out his character was being killed off while trying to save Hawkins, but seemed optimistic that his fate wasn’t necessarily sealed just yet. 

"There might be a little something,” he said optimistically, adding: “We’ll see." 

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The Duffer Brothers, on the other hand, have already shut down the idea fairly firmly, with Matt explaining on the Happy Sad Confused podcast: “We sort of saw Eddie as a bit of a doomed character.” 

He went on: “Even imagining the flipside of that where he does survive that final battle, there’s not a great life waiting for Eddie in the right side up either, so he was really designed from the get go as a doomed character – unlike someone like Bob [Sean Astin’s character], who was like a shock to really up the stakes.” 

Ross echoed: “He was always going to be a tragic character. 

“There was no other arc for him. He would have wound up in jail – this fantasy that he would have been in Milwaukee graduating sadly was never an outcome for him.” 

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