{"id":168623,"date":"2025-12-01T04:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/168623\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T04:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:09:12","slug":"stranger-things-star-says-favourite-series-five-episode-had-important-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/168623\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things star says favourite series five episode had \u2018important visitors\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stranger Things star Jamie Campbell Bower has revealed his favourite episode from the new series, teasing that there were some \u201cvery important visitors\u201d.<\/p>\n

The 37-year old British actor plays antagonist Vecna in the hit supernatural Netflix show which premiered part of its final season last week.<\/p>\n

The first series of the coming-of-age drama follows a psychokinetic girl named Eleven, played by Millie Bobby Brown, as she escaped from a laboratory in Hawkins and makes friends with a group of local kids who embarked on a mission to find their friend Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) after he became lost in an alternative reality called the Upside Down.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Jamie Campbell Bower at MCM Comic Con discussing Stranger Things following the partial release of the final season (ReedPop\/ASV Photography Ltd\/PA)<\/p>\n

Its fifth series sees Hawkins placed under a military quarantine and intensified hunt to find Eleven, as the group of friends come up against the evil Vecna for one final time.<\/p>\n

Speaking at MCM Comic Con, Bower revealed that episode eight in the new series was his favourite adding that he will talk \u201cmore about it\u201d after it comes out.<\/p>\n

He said:\u00a0 \u201cNormally when you\u2019re filming a show of this size, when you get to your final episodes you don\u2019t have many visitors, and we had some visitors, some very important visitors coming on the day that I had no idea were going to be there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was already tripping out about the scene. And it ended up being one of the most powerful things I think I laid down in the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m gonna leave it there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"RollingJamie Campbell Bower attending the Rolling Stone UK Awards at the Roundhouse, north west London (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\n

Speaking about his inspirations for his performance as Vecna and Henry Creel, Bower said he used a combination of real people and fictional characters and has kept a book with all the references \u2013 adding that he will try and share it after the series is out.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cSo for Vecna I used Doug Bradley as Pinhead when I was making the voice. Even Christopher Lee as Dracula as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI used a lot of movies, there\u2019s a lot of vampire references for some reason. There\u2019s a movie called Prince of Darkness that I used.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile he described the 1997 psychological thriller Funny Games as a \u201chuge inspiration\u201d for creating Henry Creel, a boy with psychic abilities before becoming Vecna.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThere were real people that I used for this season, without getting too much away. I used Mr. Rogers a lot more.<\/p>\n

\"FantasticJamie Campbell Bower attending the Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald UK premiere held at Leicester Square, London (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a film from the 50s of the story of the Pied Piper Of Hamelin. I used that as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s a combination of like both references and also like my own imagination, but I tend to stick up pictures of my references around wherever I\u2019m living, and I have like a book that I keep with me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tweeted about this book a couple weeks ago and I\u2019m gonna share it with you at some point. I\u2019m just figuring out with the team at Netflix how I would like to share that with you all, but I will share it with you all at some point. And it will have all of the references in it. All of my notes, all of my chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n

Created by the Duffer Brothers, Stranger Things first aired in 2016 and also stars Winona Ryder and David Harbour along with Finn Wolfhard, Sadie Sink, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Natalia Dyer and Maya Hawke.<\/p>\n

The franchise has since expanded into a play, titled Stranger Things: The First Shadow, as well as an upcoming animated spin-off, Stranger Things: Tales From \u201985.<\/p>\n

Stranger Things volume two arrives on Boxing Day and the finale is on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stranger Things star Jamie Campbell Bower has revealed his favourite episode from the new series, teasing that there…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-168623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}