Finn Wolfhard Details “Attempted Robbery” That Took Place On The Set Of His Directorial Debut ‘Night Shifts’: “Like A Standoff”

By Alex Vena
Published Feb. 29, 2024, 1:18 p.m. ET

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According to Finn Wolfhard, life seemed to imitate art in a rather “weird” way while filming his 2020 directorial debut Night Shifts.

During Wolfhard’s appearance on this week’s episode of Hot Ones, host Sean Evans questioned the Stranger Things star as to whether or not an “attempted robbery” took place while filming the comedy short, “which takes place in a real-life convenience store.”

Wolfhard rehashed the encounter, noting that the “short is about a robbery that happens between a clerk and a robber and they end up being old friends from high school.”

“And in real life, while we were shooting the robbery scene, a guy came in with like a fake — he like, welded a fake gun together through like bike springs,” he recalled. “It was the weirdest thing ever.”

He explained that the stranger “came in just kind of brandishing this fake gun.”

“And Artoun [Nazareth], the guy who is playing the burglar, turned around with his fake gun and they were just pointing fake guns at each other like a standoff,” Wolfhard continued.

As he and Evans mimicked the moment with finger guns, Wolfhard quipped that it had gone down “just like this.”

“And I was sitting there directing and I was like, ‘What’s going on?'” he added. “And I kinda peeked out and I saw this standoff going on and I was like, ‘What is happening?'”

However, it seems like Wolfhard was fairly unfazed by what took place in comparison to everybody else on set.

“And the guy left… and because I was so into [working], I was like, ‘Cool, let’s move on,'” he shared. “And everyone was like, ‘No! What the fuck just happened?’ I was like, ‘No… let’s keep going.'”

Evans chimed in, “Let’s build on that. Let’s build on that energy.”

Wolfhard teased, “Yeah uh, this one’s just for you. Yeah, it was nuts. I forgot that that happened. It’s so crazy.”

Night Shifts is available to watch on YouTube. Season 23 of Hot Ones airs new episodes on Thursdays at 11 a.m. ET on First We Feast‘s YouTube page. Check out Wolfhard’s complete Hot Ones appearance above.