{"id":226984,"date":"2026-01-08T09:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/226984\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T09:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:14:10","slug":"stranger-things-star-reveals-scrapped-final-line-for-character-and-its-actually-devastating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/226984\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things Star Reveals Scrapped Final Line for Character (And It’s Actually Devastating)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Stranger Things<\/a> series finale brought the wild story of the Upside Down to a close<\/a>, and it looked to give every character one last unforgettable moment. Whether that was Dustin honoring Eddie on the graduation stage or Steve, Nancy, Jonathan, and Robin\u2019s reunion on the rooftop, there were a bevy of powerful final moments for the show\u2019s cast<\/a>. One of those moments actually featured a different final line, and now that we know what the scrapped line was and why it didn\u2019t make the cut, it\u2019s actually pretty devastating.<\/p>\n

The first half of the series finale features the final showdown with Vecna<\/a>, and those who have seen the finale know that it ends with Joyce Byers mauling an impaled Vecna with an ax until she decapitates him. In an interview with The Tonight Show, Vecna actor Jamie Campbell Bower reveals the final words of Vecna were going to be \u201cplease don\u2019t\u201d, but it ultimately didn\u2019t work and was scrapped from the Final Cut.<\/p>\n

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Stranger Things\u2019 Scrapped Vecna Line Held a Key Connection to The First Shadow<\/p>\n

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During the interview, Bower revealed that there was actually a changed line for Vecna in season 4, and season 5 almost had a changed line as well, and it would have been another key connection to the stage play Stranger Things: The First Shadow.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to try and convey the words \u2018please don\u2019t\u2019. I don\u2019t know if anybody here has seen The First Shadow, which is the play they\u2019ve done of Stranger Things and the sort of Henry Creel backstory, and obviously Henry and Joyce, within that, have met each other. So when she kind of walks up to him, I felt like in that moment, that the humanity could come through a little bit more, and that we could just reintroduce that level of sort of potential maybe he could be saved at that point,\u201d Bower said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd when we were doing season four, there\u2019s a bit where Eleven turns Vecna around, it\u2019s when we\u2019re in the snowball, and she says \u2018hi\u2019, and just before that I sort of growl,\u201d Bower said. \u201cAnd we were in ADR and I was like, \u2018It looks like I\u2019m saying the word you, can I add that in ADR, and they were like, \u2018yeah, yeah sure, let\u2019s try it.\u2019 I don\u2019t want to step on her line and make her line not cool, but let\u2019s try it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we tried it, and it worked, and it was great. Anyway, we get to ADR for season five. I\u2019m like gurgling, and I\u2019m like I remember all I wanted to say was \u2018please don\u2019t\u2019, and we try it, and it just didn\u2019t work. It didn\u2019t land, but the emotion is there,\u201d Bower said. \u201cI tried it, yeah, it wasn\u2019t good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stranger Things season 5 is now streaming on Netflix.<\/p>\n

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