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\n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\u201cI was like, oh, “Stranger Things.” I know that show \u2014 it\u2019s massive,\u201d Askew said. \u201cSo I auditioned for it and got the role. It was so surreal \u2026 my agent told me I got the part,\u00a0and I was just like, what?“<\/em><\/p>\nAskew and his parents recently relocated to New Orleans to support his acting opportunities. Because of strict production secrecy, he couldn\u2019t tell anyone he had joined the cast.<\/p>\n
That meant disappearing from school for a couple of months while filming \u2014 completing his work online and still managing to pass all his classes.\u00a0He attended Providence Classical Academy in Bossier City.<\/span><\/p>\nThe final episode of “Stranger Things” dropped last week. This is also the final season for the show.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/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.ktbs.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHREVPORT, La. –\u00a0Netflix has confirmed that “Stranger Things” is now the platform\u2019s most-watched series ever \u2014 topping 1.2 billion views worldwide. And one of the young faces appearing in the upcoming fifth season has ties to Northwest Louisiana. Liam Askew, a Benton native, plays \u201cRoger,\u201d one of 12 children kidnapped by the season\u2019s villain, Vecna. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2223688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[430123,430122,23191,305890],"class_list":["post-2223687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-benton","tag-liam-askew","tag-netflix","tag-stranger-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Benton-native-has-role-in-Netflixs-top-rated-Stranger-Things.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223687","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=2223687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223689,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223687\/revisions\/2223689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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