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    After 'It Chapter Two' and 'Stranger Things,' Finn Wolfhard is an accidental horror star

    by Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times Sep 09, 2019 6 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Finn Wolfhard has been having a great couple of years.

    Since the 16-year-old Canadian actor broke out in Netflix's sleeper hit "Stranger Things," he's been heavily in demand for popular spooky franchises, including Warner Bros.' 2017 megahit "It" (which surpassed "The Exorcist" to become the highest-grossing horror film domestically) and next month's animated "Addams Family" movie.

    Next year he'll star in "Ghostbusters 2020" and the horror remake "The Turning" based on Henry James' novella, "The Turning of the Screw." But the teenager insists his genre-heavy resume is purely circumstantial.

    "I never liked horror up until I was like 10 years old," he said. "A lot of it is coincidence that I've done (so much) horror. But I love horror because what makes a great horror movie is that it's not just scary, it's (a little of) everything. In a real-life horrifying situation there's always (some) comedy or something sad. I

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