‘Stranger Things’ Jamie Campbell Bower Talked To Therapist About Not Wanting To Play Villains For A While: ‘F—s Me Up’
Jamie Campbell Bower is looking forward to doing away with eight-hour special effects makeup applications for Vecna — and some of the other weight that comes with playing the arch-villain on Netflix’s Stranger Things that aren’t so easy to wash off at the end of the day.
During a fan event for MegaCon Orlando, The Mortal Instruments actor admitted that he had discussions with his therapist about the mental toll of playing the hair-raising character, introduced in last season’s decidedly more PG-13 plotline.
“We were going through some stuff, and he was like, ‘We really need to make sure that you carve out time for you whenever you’re working next.’ I turned around to him, and I was like, ‘Yeah, to be honest with you, man, I just don’t think I’ll be doing another bad guy for a minute,'” he said, per People.
“Like it f—s me up,...
During a fan event for MegaCon Orlando, The Mortal Instruments actor admitted that he had discussions with his therapist about the mental toll of playing the hair-raising character, introduced in last season’s decidedly more PG-13 plotline.
“We were going through some stuff, and he was like, ‘We really need to make sure that you carve out time for you whenever you’re working next.’ I turned around to him, and I was like, ‘Yeah, to be honest with you, man, I just don’t think I’ll be doing another bad guy for a minute,'” he said, per People.
“Like it f—s me up,...
- 2/18/2025
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- Deadline Film + TV
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