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Jamie Campbell Bower tapped into real world darkness for \u2018Stranger Things’<\/p>\n
Jamie Campbell Bower shared that he turned to real life darkness while preparing for his role in Stranger Things.<\/p>\n
The 37 year old actor said he took inspiration from cult leaders for his character Mr WhatsIt, who appeared in the second volume of final season. <\/p>\n
Jamie explained that Jim Jones was one of his early references and helped shape how the character spoke and behaved around children.<\/p>\n
He told Variety: \u201cJim Jones was an early reference for me.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was on the mood board, even with regard to certain things that he\u2019s saying when the kids are all in front of him.<\/p>\n
“There were points where I thought, \u2018Do I say the word ‘you’ or do I use the word ‘we’? We\u2019re a family now.\u2019 That\u2019s really grim!<\/p>\n
“It totally can remove the idea of autonomy, so definitely there had to be that level of cult leader esqueness about him.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones star said the role felt very scary to play, especially because his character appeared kind on the surface while hiding dark intentions.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThere was so much fear in playing that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a level of real dishonesty in that, and that\u2019s really scary. It\u2019s really hard, particularly opposite a child.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the darkness, Jamie believed there is still some humanity inside Vecna and his other forms.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThere\u2019s definitely a humanity that I can see.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, final episode of Stranger Things is set to be released on 31 December. <\/p>\n
Jamie warned fans that they are likely wrong if they thought they knew how the story would end.<\/p>\n
He teased: \u201cIf you think you know what is to come, you\u2019re probably wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie Campbell Bower tapped into real world darkness for \u2018Stranger Things’ Jamie Campbell Bower shared that he turned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-205874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}