Jennifer Marshall, who portrayed Max’s (Sadie Sink) mother in Seasons 2 and 4, says being concerned in Season 5 would have helped her financially along with her most cancers battle — and claims she filmed a scene that wasn’t used.
Whereas most of the characters and storylines of Stranger Issues have been wrapped up by the sequence finale, one character was wholly absent, creating an odd and unexplained absence within the lives of one in every of its fundamental characters.
On Tuesday, Jennifer Marshall took to her Instagram to speak about her absence from Season 5 after she’d appeared in two earlier seasons. Her function? She portrayed the alcoholic mom of Sadie Sink’s Max, who spent a lot of the ultimate season in a dreamscape whereas her actual physique was in a coma on the hospital.
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Writing about her character within the caption to her share, Marshall joked, “Susan Hargrove is THE WORST MOTHER EVER LMAO.” That is with regard to the truth that followers by no means obtained to see Max’s mom by her facet whereas she was recovering and in a coma on the hospital.
Marshall additionally defined how her being included would have achieved greater than shut an uncommon character gap for the sequence. It could have helped her out personally. “I had most cancers, I get it,” she stated of the obvious determination to exclude her. “However I used to be in remission in the course of the capturing of season 5. Taking pictures would have helped me acquire my medical insurance by way of the union. Perhaps that they had too many characters, idk.”
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The actress had beforehand opened up about her stage 3 most cancers analysis in October 2022 through Fb, as famous by Us Weekly, after what had initially been stage 1 most cancers in her foot had unfold to her lymph nodes. She defined in feedback that she was battling most cancers in Season 4, however was in remission by the point Season 5 was filming.
The video portion of Marshall’s put up was a cheeky response to Susan’s absence. In it, she had a display screen caption that learn, “How usually I take into consideration the place TF Max’s mother was throughout season 5 lmao.” To this she stated to the digicam, “On daily basis. Not all day, on daily basis, however on daily basis.”
The put up was a follow-up to a earlier put up she’d shared shortly after the finale with an identical sentiment about Max’s absent mom. On this one, she shared a shot of Max in her hospital mattress and requested followers to share their finest theories as to the place her character was.
“Okay people! It’s over…however the place was she?” Marshall wrote of Susan. “What sort of mom isn’t there for her little one whereas she’s within the hospital?”
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There have been theories given within the feedback starting from lazy writing to the truth that as her character was an alcoholic, it might need been in character for Susan to not step up for her daughter on this second.
Within the feedback of her newest put up, Marshall chimed in after one fan lamented their shock {that a} hospital scene hadn’t been filmed along with her and Sink collectively. To this, Marshall replied, “we shot one! I believe the writers have been afraid I’d die in order that they omitted it? Idk”
When one other fan shared they have been shocked it wasn’t included, Marshall clarified that she’d shot one scene at Max’s bedside in the course of the filming of Season 4, so it wasn’t one thing new filmed for Season 5 and, as she put it, “it wasn’t a full fledged scene.”
One other fan lamented that Marshall did not even seem within the commencement scene with the entire different mother and father, with the fan lamenting, “but Ted ‘Do Nothing’ Wheeler was there. I used to be so mad!”
Marshall proved she was taking the entire thing in stride, commenting, “he’s so humorous tho lol.”
Stranger Issues is streaming in its entirety on Netflix.
