Joseph Quinn

Stranger Things season 4 is finally here and everyone is talking about dungeon master Eddie Munson and the guy who plays him, Joseph Quinn.

The 29-year-old may be new when it comes to taking on lead roles but he actually has a pretty impressive acting portfolio. He told Inverse Magazine: “It was kind of an interesting time. Here we first meet Eddie, the club’s dungeon master.

Stranger Things has always been a TV show that centers around the 1980s experience of being a nerd, specifically a 1980s-era Dungeons and Dragons-playing ...

Quinn’s most mainstream role in the U.S. was playing Koner, part of the Stark brigade, in Game of Thrones Season 7. The second is that, in the late 1980s, D&D culture had thoroughly overlapped with a second subset of high schoolers: metalheads. Stranger Things has always been a TV show that centers around the 1980s experience of being a nerd, specifically a 1980s-era Dungeons and Dragons-playing nerd.

Who is Eddie Munson in 'Stranger Things? Joseph Quinn is a new actor in Season 4 and his character seems important right off the bat.

Ten, Eleven, and all of the other kids at the facility all have shaved heads. Another scientific subject with a tattoo that says "Ten" is shown with a doctor when Eleven uses her powers to get revenge on the other doctors at the lab. And he could have a connection to Hawkins and even Eleven that we don't know yet at the start of Season 4. Because the first major scene of Season 4 brings us back to the Hawkins Lab when Eleven was just a child and where she enacted a massacre on many of the doctors, it's possible that Eddie is tied to that. So when the most popular cheerleader at Hawkins High, Chrissy, ends up dead in his trailer, it puts Eddie at the center of one of Season 4's big mysteries. Eddie is played by Joseph Quinn, who some may recognize as a soldier from Game of Thrones. He was also in the miniseries Les Misérables and Catherine the Great. According to IMDb, he's in nine episodes of Stranger Things Season 4.

Stranger Things newcomer Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn) "will find himself at the terrifying epicenter of this season's mystery" according to Netflix.

I think when you get given an opportunity to play a character that's kind of an outsider, it's great fun," he added. Eddie is looked down upon and feared in a lot of ways by other Hawkins students. He’s an outsider — he’s the ultimate outsider in a lot of ways. But he offers a place where Dustin and Mike can feel at home. He doesn’t fit in at Hawkins High, except among the members of his exclusive club. Talking about newcomer Eddie, Joe Keery recently teased what fans can expect to RadioTimes.com and other press: "He's a great surprise.

With his character taking up a good chunk of screentime in episode 1, it is safe to say he will be a key figure heading deeper into the season.

The episode also revealed that Eddie and Chrissy were classmates before their chance reunion at Hawkins High. The former was a guitarist for his band, the Corroded Coffin, while she was fast climbing the ranks of being a high-school cheerleader with her moves and flips. Only time will tell if Vecna and Eddie end up having a connection of sorts and how it impacts Hawkins. One of the scenes in the episode sees him befriend Chrissy (Grace Van Dien), Hawkins High's lead cheerleader, who seems to have a connection with Vecna, the big bad of the season, and is eventually shown to die after he confronts her.

The British actor and season four standout on playing an '80s metalhead and how he bonded with the OG Stranger Things cast.

“There’s no flies on him,” he says. “He has this ability to make everyone feel at home.” “There was no grandiosity from the [Duffer] brothers, or from the cast members,“ he says. “They’re not nearly as bad as you think,” he says cheekily. “They expect you to be the character.” So that’s what he did. “I could go on for ages about him,” he says. Their most frequent note to Quinn would just be to say the lines faster, he recalls with a laugh. “I’m lovingly neutral,” he says diplomatically. “Unfortunately, I don’t have the bone structure for that.” Between takes, he would keep talking in the accent to his co-stars. “I only did two days on [Thrones]. It was obviously mad to be on something of that scale, but this one was much more collaborative. The way Joe Quinn tells it, it was suspiciously easy landing a role on Stranger Things. He sent in a grand total of two self-tapes in character as Eddie Munson—a showy metalhead with big hair and an even bigger obsession with Dungeons and Dragons. Shortly afterward, he got a congratulatory call from his agent.

Get to know Joseph Quinn, the standout performer who plays Hellfire Club dungeon master Eddie Munson on 'Stranger Things' season 4.

"I wanted something that was normal, of this world, more like a mullet," he continues. It's very useful as an actor to put something on and instantly you feel like you're looking at a different person." "I listened to a lot of heavy metal and that was my... He also had a part in the action horror film Overlord and played Prince Paul in Helen Mirren's Catherine the Great series. Quinn had two weeks of fittings to get the perfect Eddie wig. "I definitely had a couple of friends that were older than me when I was growing up, in that confusing period of 13-17. But the gang are united under a common cause once more when Eddie is blamed for the gruesome murder of a Hawkins cheerleader, sparking a wave of Satanic Panic among the town that links the D&D life to occult worship. That's not Quinn. "I played my first game in L.A. when we were doing some press," Quinn tells EW. "I bought a book to try and understand what Dungeons & Dragons was about, and it didn't agree with me. Minor spoiler warning: With the kids of Hawkins now in their freshman year of high school, they face the harsh growing pains that come along with adolescence. "I wouldn't consider myself a brilliant guitarist, but I can play it. Quinn has already been named by some critics as the MVP of the show, thanks to the zeal and ferocity with which Eddie approaches all his campaigns, not to mention his total metal head 'tude towards everything in life. Though, I knew that wasn't going to be my way in, as it were."