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It is a little strange for you to play that kind of role now? Like you, I grew up in the '80s when the Soviet Union was the enemy in movies like Red Dawn and Rocky IV. They really trusted me with my choices, which was a huge honor that I obviously couldn’t screw up. They were very focused on what they were doing.

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The conversations were about how to do a particular scene like if I’m moving through the house of mirrors and they wanted me to do something different in my movements or where I looked. It’s funny, but on the Duffers’ side, it was very minor concern about me playing this part. He’s a soldier and goes as far as giving up his life to complete that mission.īecause of your own experience in the Soviet military, did the Duffers rely on you to help with the realism of the Russian soldiers? Those guys are extremely devoted to what they do, and that’s how I imagined Grigori. I served in the Soviet Army, and I understand that mindset, so I think of Grigori more as a patriot. To be honest, in my head, any references to the Terminator were very minor. In your own head, do you think of Grigori as the “good guy” of Season 3? And Arnie became a good guy in Terminator 2, but for me it still shifted more towards the first Terminator. I guess I have this hard look with my face and my body, so it became challenging to play, you know, good guys. So once you became an actor, you found it difficult to find roles that interested you because of the Schwarzenegger comparisons? Finally a part where I can actually play to what people compare me to, you know? Later on in my life, people were comparing me so much, so it's going to become inevitable. My friend was like, ‘His name is Arnold Schwarzenegger.’ I couldn’t even pronounce his second name, but he influenced me to pump harder, and to build my body the way he did. I was 15 when I got introduced to bodybuilding I started to pump and I got hooked right away.Ībout a year after that, The Terminator came out and at the same time, one of my friends who traveled abroad quite often brought these bodybuilding magazines, and this massive guy was talked about on every page.

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I discovered Schwarzenegger as a bodybuilder and Schwarzenegger as a movie star approximately at the same time. American movies came to the former Soviet Union a little bit later, so the first time I saw The Terminator, I didn’t even know about Arnold Schwarzenegger before that. I mean, I'm a fan of the first and second one I think after the second one, it went a little bit sideways. What are you own memories of the Terminator movies? Are you a fan of that franchise in general? But in the impromptu dialogue with Hopper, I tended to smile a little and stuff like that. I didn't want to make him to be a robot even if this guy is a killing machine. The core was the Terminator, but as you come to understand my character, you see that he's not a machine - he's a human being.

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The whole show is about '80s movies, TV shows and music, you know? But at the same time, the Duffers gave me freedom to work around the core. Is that what the Duffer brothers told you when you got the part?Īndrey Ivchenko: Obviously, this character is influenced by the image of the Terminator. Yahoo Entertainment: It hasn’t exactly gone unnoticed online that Grigori is Stranger Things ’s answer to the Terminator. “So it’s been over a year now! I had to fly back and forth to Atlanta frequently, so I would have to tell people, ‘I’m working on some stuff, but I can’t talk about it.’ Finally the silence is over!” We spoke with Ivchenko about his own history with the Terminator and whether Grigori is really dead at the end of Season 3. “I’ve had to keep the secret since I started shooting in Atlanta,” he tells Yahoo Entertainment. Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer went to great lengths to hide the fact that Hawkins has its very own Terminator, swearing Ivchenko to secrecy during shooting and keeping his appearances in trailers to a minimum. And Grigori wastes little time proving his mettle, thrashing Hawkins’s top cop, Chief Jim Hopper (David Harbour), and executing one of the season’s most popular new characters, Russian scientist Alexei (Alec Utgoff), in cold blood. The moment he enters the frame as Soviet hitman Grigori, Ukraine-born actor and bodybuilder Andrey Ivchenko is a dead ringer for the title character of James Cameon’s 1984 sci-fi classic. The third season of Stranger Things features a killing machine who could fight Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 to a standstill. You don’t have to wait until November to see the Terminator back in action.

Andrey Ivchenko as Grigori in 'Stranger Things' (Photo: Netflix) Warning: This post contains spoilers for Stranger Things Season 3.