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British actor Jamie Campbell Bower, who played Henry Creel/Vekna in the «Stranger Things» series, spoke about the consequences of his work as a villain and why he plans to never return to such types again.
It turns out that in addition to physical fatigue, which was caused by eight hours of makeup application for Vekna, and then the long filming, the actor also had some mental problems from his character’s actions, which he managed to solve only with the help of a psychotherapist.
«We were going through some things, and he advised me to take a break before I worked any further. I told him: ‘Honestly, man, I don’t think I’m going to play the bad guy for one more minute,'” Bover said during a fan event for MegaCon Orlando (via Deadline).
Prior to «Stranger Things», the actor was known for his roles in such films as «Twilight: New Moon», «Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street», and «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows» — but they were all minor. Instead, in the fourth season of the Duffer Brothers series, his character came to the fore, and despite the negative consequences, Bover is grateful for that.
«It’s been amazing — to join the show from season four and be a part of something that so many people love, including myself. But I’m definitely ready to throw away the latex foam and say goodbye to it forever,» Bover concluded.
Currently, the fifth season of «Stranger Things» has not yet received its first trailer (but there is a couple of frames from the filming), as well as the official release date. It is currently known that it is definitely 2025, but the large amount of footage and the corresponding large-scale work on its processing make it difficult to identify a specific period for the premiere.
«We spent a whole year filming this season», — Ross Duffer said in an interview THR. «And we shot more than 650 hours of video footage. So, of course, this is our biggest and most ambitious season yet. It’s like eight blockbusters. It’s pretty crazy».
Inspired by the works of Stephen King and the game Dungeons & Dragons, the series «Stranger Things» began airing on Netflix in 2016 — and since then, the show has remained one of the most popular on the platform. The fourth season of Stranger Things was released in two parts in May and July 2022set a record — in the first 28 days, viewers spent more than one billion hours watching the series (1.35 billion hours to be exact). From the very beginning, the showrunners planned that the story would cover 4-5 seasons, but in recent interviews they hinted at some unannounced spinoffs.