Jamie Campbell Bower

London actor and musician Jamie Campbell Bower – the fantastic antagonist in Stranger Things 4 – talks haunted music studios, bizarre rumours, and…

I can now kind of go, ‘Well, we can do whatever we want,’ and then we’ll just make that work in a live setting. On Stranger Things: “People should watch Vol. 2 because if you are a fan of the show, what you will see in this next volume is something that you’ve never seen before from Stranger Things: the world and the universe keeps on expanding. There’s more character development, you get to understand a lot more, and a lot of questions will be answered in this in this second part.”

'Stranger Things' makeup artist Barrie Gower has told NME about the six- to eight-hour process it took to create Vecna.

“Why not stick to the theme that’s already in the show? And so I would go with that. “It was a really lengthy process of generating the 25 different moulded pieces that made up his makeup,” he said.

The 33-year-old actor plays the monstrous Vecna in the fourth series of the Netflix show, and Jamie revealed he's used some unusual methods to prepare ...

So I always had that with me on set and where I was living, and it grew over time." I had a mood board that I started making quite early on in the process. The actor - who stars in the show alongside the likes of Finn Wolfhard and Millie Bobby Brown - shared: "I did a few things.

Jamie Campbell Bower plays villain Vecna in Stranger Things, but away from the show, he has also led a very interesting life including music fame and ...

However, Jamie Campbell Bower added that he got used to transforming into Vecna, saying: "I was like, ‘Cool, I now know this. I have no real plans or desire to do anything else.’ Speaking about their engagement, Jamie told news website The Daily: "I am engaged. The bodysuit was so terrifying that Jamie looked completely unrecognisable as the character, with prosthetics designer Barry Gower saying that the actor "deserved a medal" for having to deal with the amount of time it took to apply the suit. It’s a wonderful, wonderful time." A source told The Sun: "Lily and Jamie have clearly got a lot of history and they have been close for a long time, but in the end they decided they weren't right for each other and it came to an end amicably.

Looking for his Hollywood love story! Jamie Campbell Bower has had his fair share of high-profile romances after breaking into the entertainment world in ...

He and Lily Collins made headlines in 2012 after they began seeing one another following filming the 2013 movie The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. Three years later, the Stranger Things actor and Collins parted ways for good. Us Weekly confirmed in July 2012 that the pair had called off their engagement earlier that year.

A Stranger Things step-by-step guide to how Vecna was created, from hours Jamie Campbell Bower spent in prosthetics chair to design changes.

‘He’s probably one of the most extensive prosthetic makeups we’ve done as a company, because he is covered from head to toe. It took approximately seven hours to apply Jamie’s makeup every day, which consisted of a four-man team of Barrie and three other artists. So effectively every day was like a workout for him.’ It was a lot of weight for him to wear every day. He was always excited and just happy to be there as we all were. I mean, just his head and shoulders were several kilos,’ Barrie responded. So we were able to give him actual extended fingers.’ ‘They had a special undercarriage that we could pop open, so Jamie could go to the loo, and the big long finger extensions had to be detachable and removable, so he would have his hands free as well in between setups,’ Barrie said. ‘That was housed into a sort of under-glove that he used to slip on every day, and then that had a prosthetic glove sleeve that went over the top of that. ‘So even though we had an image and a blueprint of this character that we could work very closely to, it wasn’t until the role was cast and they cast Jamie Campbell Bower – and that would have been January of 2020 – Jamie came to our studio and we took a full body lifecast of Jamie so we could create a full body copy of him, and we could sculpt the Vecna prosthetics over that.’ ‘It wasn’t until we had Jamie’s full body that we realised that we had to make a few changes here and there, a few nuances and compromises that were made to the original design that would just enable us to house this character over Jamie’s forms,’ Barrie recalled. ‘They were very keen to return to a lot of the traditional techniques of the 1980s of having prosthetics and a character in a makeup, rather than approaching it from a visual effects, digital point of view.

Jamie Campbell Bower spent seven hours a day applying make-up while portraying Vecna on the fourth season of Stranger Things. The hit Netflix sci-fi series ...

“We never once had a complaint from Jamie.” It was the four of us, applying his makeup. “The actual application process, it was a well-orchestrated dance. “I think we got it down to about six hours and 20 odd minutes,” Gower said. “We had to join all the dots up, and airbrush all the colours and everything, and make everything beautiful. “Everything was pre-painted.

Jamie Campbell Bower plays Vecna in the fourth series of the Netflix sci-fi horror which returned for two final episodes of the fourth series this weekend.

It’s fair to say Vecna has helped this year’s Stranger Things become the most-watched English language TV series on Netflix in its first week, with 335million hours viewed. He nearly got Max too – if it hadn’t been for her love of Kate Bush. He said: “Some of the crew were terrified, particularly when we first started working. I was skulking round a corner and bumped into a crew member, and there was this scream from the side of the stage, and I chuckled to myself. Londoner Jamie is proud of his Scottish roots – which, like Tilda Swinton’s, are rather grand. And he also made waves off-screen.

The 33-year-old actor stars as the growling, sadistic character in the hit Netflix show, and he's admitted to relishing the experience. Jamie - who endured ...

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In an interview with Variety, Bower explains, “They brought her up into a position where she's bound. I walked up to her [as Vecna] and she burst into tears.

Brown wasn’t too traumatized once she realized it was Bower underneath the grotesque makeup. She wouldn’t look at me and she was visibly just disgusted by the whole thing.” Even the sinewy vines on Vecna’s body were real with.

Millie Bobby Brown may be on good terms with her co-star Jamie Campbell Bower, but seeing him in his costume drove her to tears. Bower, 33, played a villain ...

The crew would then film for 10 to 12 hours before removing the suit, which took another hour The crew would then film for 10 to 12 hours before removing the suit, which took another hour. 'They brought her up into a position where she’s bound,' he told the publication.

Filming her first scene with Vecna, the not-so-good-looking creator of the many monsters that have recently plagued Hawkins, caused the young actress to burst ...

Variety reported that Bower's transformation was a long, exhausting process and required 25 pieces of latex and silicone rubber material to be glued to his body using a medical adhesive. Anyone who has watched "Stranger Things" will agree that Vecna is pretty terrifying — in appearance and action. When the sequence was being filmed, Millie Bobby Brown didn't expect to converse with the on-screen monster so closely, and his appearance was too much for her. In "Stranger Things," season 4 volume 2, Eleven has her powers again, and she's finally up against Vecna in a battle that requires severe mental gymnastics from both of them. "They brought her up into a position where she's bound. In "Stranger Things" season 4, Jamie Campbell Bower portrays Vecna, an undead, towering, humanoid-looking creature with sinewy, fleshy vines on his body.

Bower told Variety the actress realized it was him under the prosthetics because she smelled the scent of his cigarettes.

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Jamie Campbell Bower felt "in charge" playing Vecna in 'Stranger Things'. The 33-year-old actor stars as the growling, sadistic character in the hit Netflix ...

Jamie Campbell Bower's incredible transformation into "Stranger Things" season 4's villain was a huge shock to co-star Millie Bobby Brown.

“She wouldn’t look at me and she was visibly just disgusted by the whole thing.” He adds, “After she cried and I made it obvious that she knew it was me, one of the things she said was that, ‘I knew it was you when I could smell cigarettes,’ because I’m a smoker.” “They brought her up into a position where she’s bound.