Joe Keery ‘Okay’ to become known as Steve Harrington from ‘Stranger Things’

Joe Keery Have no problems staying in character.

The Stranger Things Star is best known for playing Steve Harrington in the hit show and describing the role of a “Gift” during a performance on Wednesday, April 23, the episode of Zach Sang Show.

The 33-year-old multi -hyphenat discussed the sci-fi hit when asked if it was “strange” to be in a role that is “so iconic” it may be what people associate him with during the “longest time.”

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“I mean what gift it has been to do it,” he said. “There are some of me, obviously, it’s like” No, I’m more than just that. “But I don’t know, I’m okay with that.”

“If that’s all, I mean – what a crazy journey that has been,” Keery continued. “But I guess it now sits on this privilege to be able to be able to chase the things I am really interested in doing.”

Keery said that besides pursuing music, As he currently does under Moniker DjoHe is also looking for new roles that are “interesting.”

“One thing like that, I mean it’s like a thing once in a lifetime, do you know? What a fun and crazy ride,” Keery said.

Elsewhere in the section, the actor discussed the “constant battle” about “who am in” which comes with playing such a big role.

“I think there is something about it, and also the impostor syndrome of everything. To be so happy to do something and want to prove that you are worth this opportunity that you have received, and all these things gather,” he said.

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Recording for the fifth and last season of Stranger Things Wrapped in December. Earlier this year Keery split during a performance on The Tonight Show in the lead role Jimmy Fallon to The experience was “crazy.”

“It was a long year. But unpacking it all and expecting to work with something so long-I think it has been a third of my life, really,” he said.

“It was emotionally. We came to the last day and it was like everything really met the last shooting day,” he added.