Now, the star has reaffirmed this in a recent interview with latimes.com, dropping a worrying clue.
He explained: “When I read that first scene with Joyce and Hopper and he resists helping her find her child and even makes a bit of a homophobic joke about him, you see this guy has really sort of died on the inside as a result of the death of his daughter.
“The fact that he lives with a certain amount of internalised rage and had been slowly killing himself with pills and alcohol… he needed to make a sacrifice,” says Harbour.
Was Hopper always meant to die?
source: express.co.uk