Even the Guy Who Plays Vecna Didn’t Know How ‘Stranger Things’ Would End

Now that first section stranger things With season five now out into the world, fans have even more speculation to ponder about its impending end. The show’s creators, the Duffer Brothers, have gone on record saying that they have long known how the story would end, although getting there required a bit of rewriting. This is most notably seen in the early moments of season five, showing that Vecna ​​(Jamie Campbell Bower) was actually present when Little Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) was snatched into the Upside Down in season one, despite the big evil not actually appearing in the story until season four.

If you think that may be bower One The cast member who had an idea of ​​where season five was headed when he came to see the movie — well, think again. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter he explained that he was in that privileged position for season four. But when it came time to make the show’s final episodes, the Duffers didn’t give him any extra morsels except what he could have asked for from them.

“I wish I knew more than I do. Obviously for this.” [season] Fourth, I went into the cast knowing more than probably anyone else. I felt very sad going inside [season] Five, I don’t know as much as I do, I don’t have that power within me,” he told THR. “I don’t think Matt and Ross [Duffer] I wouldn’t mind telling you, that as I’m receiving the script and going through the process, I’m firing off text messages – just paragraphs of messages of questions, to the point where I feel like I was in America and flying somewhere, not even on the way back from the table read. I called him with a very specific question. I was like, ‘I really, really need to tell you what it is.’ And they were like, ‘Okay, okay,’ and eventually they agreed. I managed to get it out of them. But it was as if I was in the dark. [as] Everyone else.”

Of course, with all the episodes now gone, Bowser clearly knows what’s coming next. But you won’t get anything bad from Vecna. All he would say is that season five’s version of the character, which expands on Henry Creel’s backstory as well as his becoming a monster, felt like “quite a meaty cut, because as an actor, there are times where what you want to do is play the truth, and the truth in this scenario is clearly that Holly Wheeler (Nell Fisher) is being used in some way, and he’s not telling her,” Bower said.

“And sitting in front of a child and lying is a terrible thing; it means it’s really, really scary. As this season goes on, you’ll see more. Those were the moments that really felt like a big sigh; like a big breath. As an actor, it’s a privilege. Personally, it’s also very scary. It’s very, very scary to play that. A huge undertaking.”

stranger things Season five continues on December 25 and 31 on Netflix.

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