David Harbour has dropped out of a starring function in new film Behemoth! weeks after lacking an occasion tied to the sequence finale of Stranger Issues.
Searchlight Footage confirmed to Selection on Tuesday, January 6, that Harbour, 50, will not star in director Tony Gilroy’s music drama, wherein he was supposed to seem reverse Pedro Pascal and Olivia Wilde. (DeuxMoi was first to report information of Harbour’s exit on Tuesday.)
In keeping with Selection, citing a number of sources, Harbour stepped other than the film to take a while to relaxation after being overwhelmed by the latest hype across the ultimate season of Stranger Issues. The fifth season premiered in three components on Netflix between November and December 2025, with the ultimate two-hour episode premiering on Wednesday, December 31.
Harbour’s Behemoth! function has already been recast, per Selection, although the actor’s substitute will not be but identified.
Us Weekly has reached out to Harbour’s representatives and Searchlight Footage for remark.
Harbour’s Behemoth! exit comes simply weeks after he skipped the Paley Middle’s Stranger Issues: The Last Season Celebration in New York Metropolis on December 18.
The actor was initially marketed to seem alongside a number of of his castmates on the purple carpet, adopted by a screening and dialog. Nevertheless, the Paley Middle confirmed to Individuals on the day that Harbour would “not be current because of a scheduling battle.”
Simply 24 hours previous to the occasion, TMZ reported that Harbour was noticed performing unusually at a bar in Encinitas, California, simply exterior of San Diego. In keeping with the outlet, Harbour took a fellow patron’s hat on the bar and allegedly ran out of the venue with it, calling to the guy patron, “C’mon dude, f***ing get me.”
The opposite buyer adopted Harbour and requested, “What the f*** did I do to you?” earlier than retrieving his hat, per TMZ. There was no report of a bodily altercation between the 2.
Harbour has not publicly addressed the allegations and his representatives didn’t instantly reply to Us’ request for remark on the time.
Again in October 2025, Harbour’s private life was the topic of social media chatter after his estranged spouse, Lily Allen, launched her new album, West Finish Lady, and insinuated that the actor cheated on her. (The couple separated in late 2024 after 4 years of marriage.)
“Been no romance since we wed / ‘Why aren’t we f***ing, child?’ Yeah, that’s what you stated / However you let me suppose it was me in my head / And nothing to do with them women in your mattress,” Allen sang on the monitor “Sleepwalking.”
In an October interview with British Vogue, Allen, 40, stated, “There are issues which are on the report that I skilled inside my marriage, however that’s to not say that it’s all gospel. It’s impressed by what went on within the relationship.”
For his half, Harbour was coy about their separation in an April 2025 interview with GQ Hype.
“I’m protecting of the individuals and the truth of my life. There’s no use in that type of participating [with rumors] as a result of it’s all primarily based on hysterical hyperbole,” he stated, including that he didn’t wish to encourage a “salacious s***present of humiliation.”

