Gaten Matarazzo on Prank Encounters, Stranger Things Season 4, and the Star Wars Sequels

With Prank Encounters Season 2 now streaming on Netflix, I recently spoke with Gaten Matarazzo about hosting the elaborate prank series. If you haven’t seen the show, Prank Encounters takes two strangers that are each hired for a night’s work and places them both in an unexpected situation that has been staged by professional actors. In the first season, pranks included teddy bears coming to life, a top-secret government warehouse that released a hostile alien, ancient Egyptian curses, and a homicidal scarecrow. Season 2 features ghosts, dangerous spiders, a device that can read minds, a deadly fog from another dimension, and more. During the wide-ranging interview, Matarazzo revealed how nervous they are that someone might fly off the handle or freak out, how they wanted to try and prank three people at the same time and why it didn’t happen, which episode someone should start with if you haven’t seen the series, and more. In addition, he talked about Stranger Things Season 4, when he starts filming