Which, let's be honest: A lot of people who have done terrible things often do think that. My thing was always that he's kind of this righteous hand of justice and he's there to change the world for the greater good. Was that your take on him when you were figuring out who the character was? I get the feeling that he doesn't think of himself as evil. I felt that there'd be several iterations of the character, like he was just kind of presenting different versions of himself as the story went on. And then I had the Upside Down and the Mind Flayer and then went further out from there.

I've spoken about this before, but what I did when I got those two sets of sides was make this mind map, mood board, where I had Will Byers in the middle and then I had Millie and all the other characters around. The part really does seem to be a midpoint between * Primal Fea* r and Hellraiser.Ī hundred percent, and I think from there.

The twist at the heart of Stranger Things 4 comes when Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) realizes that the sympathetic orderly who's been helping her deal with the bullying of the other kids in the Hawkins Lab is also its first resident, the troubled, murderous, extremely powerful Henry Creel, who feels fully vindicated in his vendetta against the human race. Only Vecna doesn’t see himself that way, which makes him a compellingly scary character, even apart from his slithering tendrils and terrifying face.

But he’s never been asked to play a being of undiluted malevolence quite like Vecna, the sadistic demonic being at the center of Stranger Things’ fourth season. He portrayed the powerful vampire Caius in three Twilight Saga films and the young Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1, a role he reprised this year in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. He’s worked as a model and musician in addition to his acting career, which has often found him working in weird universes filled with supernatural beings, usually playing bad guys. Spoilers for Stranger Things season 4 follow.īorn in England to a family with ties to the music business, Jamie Campbell Bower has been a performer since childhood.

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