Winona Ryder has found the response to 'Stranger Things' "overwhelming".
Winona Ryder
The 44-year-old actress has made her comeback in the Netflix sci-fi horror series and she admitted she didn't expect the programme - which was recently recommissioned for a second series - to be so popular.
She said: "The response has been overwhelming, in the best possible way.
"Obviously, you're part of something you hoped would find an audience and find its niche, but somehow (writers and directors) the Duffer Brothers managed to bring all these different elements and storylines together in a really organic way that's transcended the genre.
"I've spoken to people who don't normally watch this kind of thing, and they really enjoyed it, so that's been great."
Winona is thankful her character Joyce, whose son has gone missing, is not "cookie-cutter perfect" and thinks her responses to the situation are entirely how any other mother would react.
She told heat magazine: "It feels like a superstition to talk about it, but I actually think my character reacts completely appropriately to her situation, which was both incredibly unimaginable in terms of the grief, but also completely bizarre in terms of what was happening.
"I can't imagine what else she would do, or what any parent would do.
"Joyce is like a lot of women I know, who are just really good people trying the best they can to get by.
"I appreciate her flaws - she's complicated, she's struggling and there's nothing cookie cutter or perfect about her."
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