The Vecna mashup we didn’t know we needed! Jamie Campbell Bower who plays Vecna in season 4 of Stranger Things appeared on The Tonight Show (Aug. 2), and performed an a cappella rendition of Lizzo’s ‘About Damn Time’ using Vecna’s voice.

 

 

 

Talking with Jimmy Fallon about the vocal work, Jamie says, “It took a few months to get right.  We had the readthrough in March of 2020 and I had been doing a bit of work on Vecna and on [his other character] Henry. I only got the job in January, so I had February to prepare for it.”

 

 

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During the first table read, Jamie says he sat behind co-star Millie Bobby Brown and shared how ‘his initial version of Vecna started in this very kinda nasally area.’  “More like Freddy Krueger — and it just wasn’t landing. So I went home and worked on it, did a bunch of reference work for Hellraiser and Doug Bradley, particularly. It said that this deep, booming voice kinda comes out of the darkness and I was like, ‘Oh yeah, you can tell,'” he says.

 

 

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Jamie also dished on what it was like getting into character, which required eight hours of prosthetics before filming, “We start at about three in the morning to be ready for about 10, and then I have to act.” At the end of the day, it would take Jamie about an hour to remove everything.

 

 

 

 

In addition to Jamie Campbell Bower, Joseph Quinn, Millie Bobby Brown, Joe Keery, Sadie Sink, and Gaten Matarazzo have all made appearances on The Tonight Show.  Watch below.

 

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