Gaten Matarazzo has had a busy life. The child actor debuted on Broadway when he was just 9 years old and then blew up on Netflix’s Stranger Things series, playing a nerdy middle schooler obsessed with Dungeons and Dragons. Matarazzo has recently returned to Broadway with Sweeney Todd before he did Dear Evan Hansen, led a rom-com in Honor Society, and embodied a lovable dragon in My Father’s Dragon.

In his spare time, Matarazzo also moonlights as a Nintendo spokesperson. His go-to Smash character is Yoshi, for whom he says, “I don’t have to be a pro — I can still make Yoshi’s army stampede through the stage for me.”

About a year ago, he made headlines talking about a potential Legend of Zelda movie. When I sit down with him and tell him this, he laughs: “Maybe it was me that convinced them to do it!”

Matarazzo sat down with Inverse to chat all things Zelda and how the child actor got into video games just a little bit later than his peers, due to his busy schedule.

It’s a claim that’s made so many times it seems stale, but in a wilder year than most, I’ll make it again: We have Android to thank for the modern iPhone experience as much as we do Apple’s designers.

It’s been commonly accepted that Apple arrives late to ideas popularized by other platforms like Android so it can apply its signature level of polish and deep integration to its hardware and software. In this way, Apple stays current (relatively) while keeping the implementation and look of new features distinctly Apple.

What’s unique about 2023, though, is it’s the first year in a long while that the iPhone’s slow adoption of Android’s concepts and open standards has been forced by regulators as often as it was chosen by Apple, and all signs point to it not being the last. The iPhone’s future looks a lot like Android, and the only way that changes is if Apple tries something new.