So when I'm working with Martie, who plays the younger version of Eleven, I'm treating her a lot more like a child. But there’s the younger version of her character that I'm interacting with, which is what I'm really seeing. I think she was turning 17 when we first started working. It was interesting as well having to play with Millie, who's a bit older. He does hope, I think, that she would come with him, because he can relate to her and they are sort of friends. So he's learned very quickly that he has to suppress himself as well. We see that scene where the guards are shocking Henry with the prods and that's not the first time that will have happened to him. So he does look at her with a tenderness, but he's having to toe the line in terms of existing in the lab because Brenner has obviously suppressed him, manipulated him, or tried to manipulate him, and also physically hurt him as well. She's bullied by the other kids in the lab and he felt the same way growing up. If you get to pick it apart, she is basically his sister or potentially even his child, based on the fact that she was kind of created from him. I think it's a combination of the two things. I just found it very nerve-wracking to be standing there, smiling, but underneath it all having this, "Oh, get me the fuck out of there," kind of feeling. The thing for me that I actually found the most emotionally terrifying was being very nice with Eleven because I knew underneath all of this presentation of a nice person, there's this real rage and this secret that he's keeping that he really wants to tell her, but can't. When I do that I often take time-before shooting but after shooting as well-to just be by myself and make sure that anything that's come up has fallen away so that when I'm interacting with loved ones or another person I'm not bringing anything really nasty into any relationship that I have. To kind of dredge up the resentment and the rage is always an interesting thing. Is it hard to be in that mindset for as long as it takes to play this character? And he wants to show people that it's necessary to be yourself, I suppose, in some way. He’s there to change the world because he sees the world as a very dangerous and toxic place for him to live in, where people aren't really themselves. So he's not there to just cause chaos for the sake of causing chaos. But I think for him, given his upbringing, given his experience, given all of the things that he's gone through, his belief system is pretty bang on, it's pretty real. 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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