Q&A: How Stranger Things' David Harbour Helped Tide Hijack the Super Bowl

The actor discusses his first commercial gig

Inspiration meets innovation at Brandweek, the ultimate marketing experience. Join industry luminaries, rising talent and strategic experts in Phoenix, Arizona this September 23–26 to assess challenges, develop solutions and create new pathways for growth. Register early to save.

It’s around 4:30 p.m. on a Wednesday in January, and David Harbour is sipping La Croix through a straw. He’s just finished playing a round of tennis with a few senior citizens at a country club on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Harbour, the 42-year-old actor best-known for playing Jim Hopper on Netflix’s Stranger Things, isn’t an avid tennis player. And yet there he was, dressed in tennis whites, happy to pretend.

Harbour was there to star in his first pharmaceutical ad.

AW+

WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.

Subscribe today!

To Read the Full Story Become an Adweek+ Subscriber

View Subscription Options

Already a member? Sign in