IN 2015 A CASTING CALL WENTout for five child actors, around the age of 12, to star in a new series for Netflix. Set in Hawkins, Ind., during the 1980s, it would be reminiscent of Stephen King’s sweet coming-of-age story Stand by Me—assuming the preteens found themselves coming of age in another of King’s tales, the terrifying It. The requirements: four boys who would form a band of misfit friends and one girl who would be willing to shave her head. “We weren’t thinking of them as kids or…
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