Having a career that spans 40 years means the age range of actor Matthew Modine’s fanbase is wide. While some of his older fans know him best as Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 Vietnam War-era film “Full Metal Jacket,” some of his youngest fans are kids who think of him as Dr. Brenner from “Stranger Things.”

Modine touched on the significance of these roles and more during a Q&A panel with fans at Salt Lake City’s FanX Saturday afternoon, but the first thing the actor talked about had nothing to do with his career.

Instead, Modine acknowledged that being in Salt Lake City was a homecoming of sorts — his grandmother, Zella Vanola Fairbanks, was from the small town of Annabella in Sevier County, and his parents moved to Utah when he was 5.

Over roughly 45 minutes, Modine reflect

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