Winona Ryder "never" expected 'Stranger Things' to become such a success

She told E! News: "We're still filming, it's still happening till the end of the year. It's going to be bittersweet. It is the 10th year of that, which is wild. I could never I never imagined it would, you know, it's sort of like 'Beetlejuice'. I don't think any of us anticipated that show becoming what it did."

The 'Edward Scissorhands' star - who emerged as a teen idol in the early 1990s with appearances in a string of cult films such as 'Heathers' and 'Beetlejuice' and famously dated Johnny Depp during her early years of fame - recently explained that had been a big decision for her to agree to do the show in the first place because she has never played the same character for such a long period of time before.

She told Harper's Bazaar: "It's an absolute first for me to play a character for that long. It was huge to say yes to just one episode ... they only gave me the pilot episode. I didn't at the time know what streaming was. It was terrifying in that regard."

The Hollywood actress even insisted before agreeing to sign on that she would be allowed to take time off to film a sequel to 'Beetlejuice' - which is due for release later this year - before it was even certain that the project would ever come to fruition.

She said: "There have been moments over the last 15 years where we thought it was going to happen, but that's the thing ... it had to be perfect with everybody in order for it to happen. I remember at my first meeting with the Duffer Bros. I said, 'As long as if "Beetlejuice 2? happens you'll let me go do that.' They agreed. Luckily it worked out. That was my one condition."