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The Hawkins kids are all grown up. Believe it or not, Stranger Things fans, but Gaten Matarazzo is now twenty-three years old. The star of the Netflix mega-hit is currently embarking on the press tour for the fifth and final season of the wildly popular sci-fi horror series—which premieres its first four episodes on the streamer on November 26. So, it's only natural that the actor behind Dustin Henderson spends that time reminiscing about where it all started.

In a conversation with Esquire for our video series For the Record , Matarazzo takes fans back to his awkward taped audition for Stranger Things . According to the actor, he remembers it as "one of the worst auditions I have ever had in my life."

"I wasn't nervous until I realized I did not know the lines as

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