One of those was Gaten Matarazzo, who plays Dustin in the show, and took his fair share of beatings on his way to the finale. While Dustin has been at the heart of the show as much as anyone, the Duffers had already made fans worry about his safety by having him beaten to a pulp by school bullies earlier in the season.

Gaten Matarazzo, who plays fan-favorite Dustin Henderson, said he was "taken aback" by how much he realized the "Stranger Things" finale made sense.

In an exclusive interview with Cosmopolitan, the actor reflects on playing a darker version of Dustin and letting the last 10 years of his career come to an end.

Stranger Things Season 5 brings the Hawkins gang’s coming-of-age journey to a powerful and long-awaited culmination.

“Pizza Movie,” starring Gaten Matarazzo (“Stranger Things”) and Sean Giambrone (“The Goldbergs”), will make its worldwide debut at the SXSW Film & TV Festival, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film is among those in the “Narrative Spotlight” for the March 12-18 event in Austin, Texas.

Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo opened up about a seriously ‘upsetting’ encounter he had with a 40-year-old woman and fans are 'disgusted'.

Gaten Matarazzo's Dustin Henderson has gone through hell and back in the past two seasons of Stranger Things. Of course, the overall events of the show have never been just fun to begin with, but the end of the fourth season had Dustin facing a dear friend, Eddie Munson's death, which changed him for life.

Stranger Things has come to an end, and the finale centered on tying up loose ends, and seeing the group of friends move on with their lives. While most of the peripheral characters were at least seen in the final episodes,