Loving coupon could not help but take her young Foreign things The costumes under her arm again during the day – and she is proud to prove how much they have achieved since.
“I like to think I am the mother of defacto. They are so adult now, surely no one wants to hear any advice from me as a typical mother,” said Buono, 54, exclusively The weekly about the dynamics with Foreign things costumes. “But I love all the kids and I like to watch them grow up.”
Good – who is the new movie Things like this hits theaters on Friday, May 16 – admitted that during Foreign things The years of star teens, they were typical children who often did not “really listen to their mothers”, so she was not afraid to enter when needed.
Foreign things premiere in 2016 and began the career of Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Holes of the Hollarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noe Snap And more. Season 4 premieres in 2022 and the long -lasting last season is expected to fall this year. Buono portrays Karen Wheeler, Mom to Mike (Wolfhard) and Nancy (Natalia door) Wheeler.
Not all the time of Buono on the show are not completely revolved around teens. One of Karen’s main bows came during season 3 of the series, when she and Billy Hargrove (Dacre Montgomery) form a mutual attraction. The story line was a little controversial – Billy was still in high school at the time – but Karen finally chooses to give up the issue.
Buono, for her part, confessed that she was surprised by the story line given the mass gap of age among the characters.
“It was almost as if it were a kind of departure from the show because just a kind of themes they were bringing to an elderly woman and a young man and a flirtation and maybe had a connection,” she recalled. “It seems except Foreign things The world, but they approach her with humor. I think they also inject it with emotionality like them (when) Karen decided that she could not leave because of her family. “

Through all the ups and downs of her character, Buono has never stopped lover the role of Karen – and remains surprised and pleased with how widespread Foreign things It is made in pop culture Zeitgeist.
“I always knew it was a special project when I read the first script, but I was definitely surprised by what became a phenomenon,” she reflected. “And I’m just proud of the stories we have told and the links we made to the audience all over the world. This is a very rare thing to happen today with shows.”
She went on, “” Just just a rare and really nice experience to be part of something that is resonated with people in generations that really doesn’t happen. I just really like to play Karen. ”
While the series of flag means goodbye to fans soon, the word of overthrow continues to increase. Dear exclusivity just started the stage game Strange things: The first shadowwhich serves as a preaching of the original series. Buono recently reunited with the rest of the cast to celebrate the new production.
“It was so fun. It was the first time I saw a bunch of people and it was a really great night,” she recalled we. “The show was epic and wonderful, scary and the last time (Cast) saw each other, we were ending the show. So many tears and months have passed now. So it’s definitely a feeling of movement in that bitter way.”
Buono noted that she especially liked to see her character’s “high school” version on stage. “It has just been surreal really walking in the set and away from the set, and I’m just grateful for every second of it,” she added.
With the end of Foreign things On the horizon, Buono is now taking a step away from supernatural horror and bending its comic muscles in Things like this. Rom-com, who stars Joey Pollari AND MAXfollows two men who share the same name as they fall in love. Buono, for her role, Luan Margie.
“I think it’s just an excellent love story. I think it’s completely relevant, though it happens to be about two men,” she said we. “Emotions are truly universal, and that’s what I really love for it. It’s not trying to make a point to be weird, it’s just telling this beautiful, honest story for lovers and I think the more we see it on screen, the more normal and celebrated it becomes.”
Buono emphasized that the “representation of authentic representation”, and the stories of the strangest love belong to the romantic space of the genre.
“It’s about the connection. Almost misunderstandings, but then a connection,” she said we. “I hope that people will simply see that it is really special, and that it is a love story that is not focusing on denial or stereotypes, just something really real and funny and hopeful for people seeking love in their lives.”
Things like this Premieres in the cinema on Friday, May 16th.