Stranger Things Helped Joseph Quinn During Airport Stop

This may be among the stranger things to happen to Joseph Quinn.

During his talk-show debut on the July 25 episode of The Tonight Show, the actor, 28, revealed he almost didn’t make his late-night appearance. And just why was that?

“I was held up at immigration yesterday,” he told Jimmy Fallon. “Have you ever been to secondary?…No? Oh, it’s not so fun.” 

So what happened during his secondary inspection? “I was taken into I guess what you could call it, it was more of a dungeon, and I was asked to wait there for about 20 minutes,” Quinn recalled of his trip to the interview area. “And then I was summoned to this desk, where someone asked me, ‘What are you doing in the United States, sir?’ I said, ‘Well, I’m actually here to meet Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show,’ and he didn’t believe me.”

Luckily, one of the officers recognized Quinn from his role as fan-favorite Eddie Munson on Stranger Things. “One of his colleagues looked over at me, looked over at him,” he shared, “and said, ‘Leave Eddie alone.'” 

And it looks like the person who stopped Quinn was a fan. “He’s like, ‘You’re Eddie Munson?’ I was like, ‘Kind of.’ He’s like, ‘Do you come back next season?’ I said, ‘Um, I don’t know.’ He was like, ‘You better,’ [and] gave me the passport.”