Matthew Modine Stranger Things

And when I spoke to them, they were so passionate about my participation that they talked me into it.

After graduating high school in Imperial Beach, Ca. He is best known for his roles that include Private Joker in Full Metal Jacket, high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest, Sullivan Groff on Weeds and Dr. Martin Brenner in Netflix original Stranger Things. In one such experiment, Brenner indirectly unleashed a monster from another dimension into Hawkins, allowing Eleven to escape the lab.

To learn from him, to receive a film education from him and just to listen to stories of his life and how he became a filmmaker —  I just can’t compare that experience with any other film I’ve worked on.” His other film roles include the title character in Alan Parker’s Birdy, the high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest, Drake Goodman in Pacific Heights and Dr. Ralph Wyman in Short Cuts. So … I probably would have been in the movie. I think it’s too simplistic to do that. Brenner had experimented with her mother Terry, who had volunteered to become a MKUltra test subject. The youngest of seven, Matthew was born in Loma Linda, Ca, to Dolores (Warner), a bookkeeper, and Mark Alexander Modine, a drive-in theater manager. Martin Brenner Stranger Things. On television, Modine portrayed Dr. Martin Brenner in Stranger Things, the oversexed Sullivan Groff on Weeds, Dr. Don Francis in And the Band Played On and Ivan Turing in Proof.Modine has been nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for his work in And the Band Played On and What the Deaf Man Heard and won a Special Golden Globe for him and the rest of the ensemble in Short Cuts. However, an unstated threat was present in even the most affectionate words he uttered, lurking just beneath the surface.When Eleven performed well, Brenner would “reward” her with affection. All rights reserved. However, all the offers he seemed to be getting were that of villains.“It was a weird place to find myself in,” he said.

Through blood testing, Brenner discovered that Terry became pregnant during the program. When it came time for “Wall Street,” Modine said it’s likely he would have taken on the film if he saw one thing first.“I just wanted to read the script,” he reflected. Joker in “Full Metal Jacket.” The 1987 movie, directed by This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, His atrocious nature was evident when he forced Eleven’s mother to undergo electroshock therapy after she attempted to retrieve her daughter.He was shown to be vicious when Eleven disobeyed him as he used to put her through cruel psychological torture and forcefully kept her in solitary confinement, even though she was just a child. “He was perfect. “It was weird to transition from being a young leading man to receiving scripts where they were offering me … the bad guy.”Fortunately, the creators of the hit series managed to get a yes out of Modine with enough convincing.“The Duffer Brothers were incredibly complimentary to me,” said Modine. There, Matthew had attended and graduated from Mar Vista High School in 1977. When Eleven performed extraordinary feats, Brenner appeared proud of her accomplishments.Terry Ives was one of Brenner’s MKUltra test subjects.

All rights reserved. He heads a pro-bike organization called "Bicycle for a Day" and was honored for his work on June 2, 2009, by the environmental arts and education center on the Modine married Caridad Rivera, a Puerto Rican makeup and wardrobe stylist with Spanish and African ancestry,Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series