The latest season of the widely popular Netflix original, Stranger Things, introduced a new and most terrifying monster yet to the series: Vecna. The monster Vecna is a psychic-powered “Five-Star General” of the Mind Flayer.
One of the big twists at the ending of Stranger Things Season 4 Part 1 was that “Vecna” was actually Henry Creel, the former “No. 1" prototype of Dr. Martin Brenner’s program.
Jamie Campbell Bower, the actor who plays Vecna, spent most of his screen time in Season 4 of Stranger Things appearing as a mysterious bug-eyed orderly in Eleven’s memories, or as the grotesque-looking monster, in a suit of full-body prosthetics.
As it turns out, one Stranger Things star’s first encounter with Campbell as the monster Vecna left a very unsettling impression.
Stranger Things showrunner Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin) was recently on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to promote the upcoming release of Stranger Things Season 4 Part 2 on Netflix, and talked about the weird first meeting head with Vecna. According to Matarazzo, he randomly met Bower in half-costume as Vecna while waiting for the 360° photo booth that is used to capture the actors’ likenesses for digital effects shots.
"And so it was kind of like a little line of the cast in costume," Matarazzo said to Kimmel. "They went whenever they had free time during filming. And I saw Vecna sitting there and I looked at him and I was like 'Hi. It's great to see you.' I hadn't seen him since the table read. And he was just like 'Yeah, how are you? It's good to see you,' in like a lawn chair, feet up, and like whole half done up in Vecna gear. It is unsettling and just bonkers, yeah."
Matarazzo’s story even gets funnier when he and Fallon talk about how even being near ‘Vecna in sweatpants’ was a very scary experience.
Several fans of the show have been fascinated by the process of transforming Jamie Campbell Bower into the terrifying monster Vecna. A lot of prosthetics and painting effort was seen in a now-viral behind-the-scenes video.
Recently, the series creators, The Duffer Brothers, promised that the psychic-powered Vecna will be claiming some victim(s) that will leave the fans emotionally shattered.
Who do you think will die in Stranger Things Season 4 Part 2?
Stranger Things Season 4 Part 1 is currently available to stream on Netflix while Stranger Things Season 4 Part 2 is set to be released on July 1.
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