For Variety ’s Oct. 15 cover story on the fifth and final season of “ Stranger Things ,” the show’s creators, twin brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, sat for nearly four hours of interviews in July and September, both times at their postproduction offices in Hollywood. While they are self-proclaimed introverts, the Duffers were nonetheless remarkably candid and open about themselves and how much they’ve changed — and haven’t changed — since their show premiered on Netflix in 2016.

In advance of the Nov. 26 premiere of Season 5’s first four episodes on Netflix, here is an edited excerpt of our conversations with them, in which they also discuss why Finn Wolfhard and his character Mike Wheeler are the most like them, what they learned from “ Game of Thrones ” about negotiating with Netf

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