{"id":1962116,"date":"2025-08-15T13:29:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1962116"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:29:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:29:30","slug":"why-stranger-things-star-dacre-montgomery-quit-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-stranger-things-star-dacre-montgomery-quit-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Why \u2018Stranger Things\u2019 Star Dacre Montgomery Quit Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dacre Montgomery<\/a>, best known for his breakout role as Billy Hargrove<\/a> on Netflix<\/a>\u2019s Stranger Things<\/a>, has opened up about why he stepped away from Hollywood at the peak of his fame.<\/p>\n

The Australian actor, who also portrayed Steve Binder<\/a> in Elvis and the Red Ranger in Power Rangers<\/a>, pointed to the lack of mystery and relentless social media scrutiny as major factors. He told The Australian,<\/p>\n

Traditional Hollywood stars existed because there was mystery\u2026 Social media has done away with that. That\u2019s a large part of why I dropped off the map for the last five years<\/p>\n

After reaching global stardom, Montgomery<\/a> decided to prioritize projects that truly resonated with his personal and creative values. He took a five-year hiatus to reflect on his career, focusing on meaningful work rather than chasing celebrity status or fleeting relevance.<\/p>\n

This break allowed him to carefully plan his next moves in both acting and directing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dacre Montgomery, best known for his breakout role as Billy Hargrove on Netflix\u2019s Stranger Things, has opened up about why he stepped away from Hollywood at the peak of his fame. The Australian actor, who also portrayed Steve Binder in Elvis and the Red Ranger in Power Rangers, pointed to the lack of mystery and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1962117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-1962116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Why-\u2018Stranger-Things-Star-Dacre-Montgomery-Quit-Hollywood.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}