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Joe Keery and Charlie Heaton shared in a recent interview how their 'Stranger Things' co-star Winona Ryder gifted them cherished vintage items, highlighting her generosity toward the cast. (148 characters)
## Gifts from Winona Ryder
Joe Keery and Charlie Heaton described Winona Ryder as a generous gift-giver during a joint November 2025 interview with Elle UK alongside Natalia Dyer.
Heaton, playing Jonathan Byers, received a Clash t-shirt from Ryder that she owned since the 1980s, calling her "such a generous person" and "a great gift giver."
Keery, portraying Steve Harrington, got a vintage Pink Floyd shirt once belonging to the late Elliott Smith, who passed in 2003; he noted, "I don't think I've ever really told anybody about this. She gave me … a Pink Floyd t-shirt. Like a beautiful, amazing, old Pink Floyd shirt. And she told me that it was Elliot Smith's."
## Ryder's Reflections on 'Stranger Things'
Ryder views her role on the show as life-changing, stating in a 2022 Variety interview: "It came at my life when there wasn't a lot going on for me, and women my age. And it's opened up a lot of opportunities."
In a November 2025 Cherry the Geek TV interview, she called watching younger castmates grow up "an honor of a lifetime."
The first four episodes of the fifth and final season are now streaming on Netflix.
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AOL — 2025-11-29