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Finn Wolfhard is primarily known for his role as Mike Wheeler on\u00a0Stranger Things, but with the popular Netflix show firmly behind him, he is now focused on his music career. But that doesn\u2019t mean he is not performing and picking up smaller jobs that let him do fun, unexpected things like act out Lego Pok\u00e9mon battle scenarios with Terry Crews. In promotion of the commercial and the new line of Lego Pok\u00e9mon, we spoke with Wolfhard about his history with video games, Pok\u00e9mon, Lego, and learned how video game music influences his own music.<\/p>\n

Game Informer: What\u2019s your history with Pok\u00e9mon? Where’d you start?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Finn Wolfhard:<\/strong>\u00a0The first game I played was Pok\u00e9mon Pearl, and I loved that game. And my brother and I \u2013 my brother maybe even more so than me is a huge Pok\u00e9mon fan. I’m a huge fan, as well. He, I think, has put a little more hours into the games, but I\u2019ve definitely had my fair share of Pok\u00e9mon and playing through FireRed. Last year, me and a few of the cast, actually, of\u00a0Stranger Things were playing through FireRed on set to kind of pass the time, and that was really fun.<\/p>\n

Were you trading Pok\u00e9mon on set? Did you get that intense with it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We didn’t. We weren’t trading, but we were comparing how each other’s journey was going.<\/p>\n

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Stranger Things, Season 5<\/p>\n

Seen just out of frame, multiple copies of Pok\u00e9mon FireRed (allegedly)<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

Pearl was your first. Who was your starter?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t fully remember, actually, who it was. I remember playing Machamp a lot from that game. That was like my\u2026 that was obviously not my starter. But my memory is that I was playing the most when I was Machamp. I’m pretty sure it was Machamp. But yeah, that was definitely, I think grade two or three or something playing that game. From what I remember, it was Pearl. What was the other one that came out that year? It was Diamond?<\/p>\n

Yeah, Diamond and Pearl were the two for DS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Right. It was Diamond and Pearl. Do you remember what the starters were on both of those?<\/p>\n

Readers will definitely want to know who your starter was. It was Piplup the penguin, Chimchar the flame monkey, and Turtwig the turtle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was Turtwig.<\/p>\n

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Good choice.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, and then my brother was playing Diamond at the time, so we both got best of both worlds.<\/p>\n

Who was your FireRed starter? That one maybe you remember because you played it more recently.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, that one was Venusaur. [editor\u2019s note: Bulbasaur] I love a grass Pok\u00e9mon, for sure.<\/p>\n

How about Lego? What\u2019s your Lego connection?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lego is a huge part of my childhood, and obviously I grew up with it just being scattered around our house. I think for years, my parents found Lego everywhere. But I remember we had a lot of Star Wars Lego. We had little Tie Fighters, and I remember having a Darth Maul. A little Darth Maul figure that we’d play with all the time. So we were definitely a Lego family.<\/p>\n

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I imagine this offer comes through, an ad\/short film for Lego and Pok\u00e9mon and it\u2019s a pretty easy yes?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, I was kind of like, \u201cOh, these are two awesome things from my childhood. I have to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

And what is it, exactly?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s […] keeping it maybe a little vague, but from what’s already come out for the teasers and stuff, I’m battling Terry Crews and I’m kind of like an undefeated Pok\u00e9mon trainer, a Lego Pok\u00e9mon trainer, who now has a new fighter or a new challenger.<\/p>\n

Was that an easy role for you to play? Are you good at playing the Pok\u00e9mon games?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, I’m pretty good at Pok\u00e9mon. I think this was fun because this ad, the short film kind of takes inspiration from\u00a0 \u2013 because it’s, you know, it’s not a video game. It\u2019s tactile. It’s the figures and actually using the toy, so a lot of it was actually pretty physical. We actually had to do some choreography for it, and it was a little bit inspired by kung-fu films. Pretty fun stuff.<\/p>\n