Before starring as Vecna in Netflix's Stranger Things, Jamie Campbell Bower auditioned for a role in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which did not go well for the young actor.
"I went to go and meet [director] Chris Columbus in London for the first Harry Potter, and they'd asked us to prepare a joke," Bower told the Happy Sad Confused podcast. "And I had just heard this joke about a fairy—like, the reason why the fairy sits on top of the Christmas tree, and it's a really, like, dirty joke, because it's about the Christmas tree up somebody's bottom. And I told this joke in the audition, and there was again, this sort of, like... air of just like silence after I said it. And I was like, 'Well... fucked that up.'"
Despite that early audition not working out, Bower eventually found his way into the Harry Potter franchise, appearing in both Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald as a younger version of Gellert Grindelwald.
The main villain of Season 4, Vecna was revealed to be Henry Creel / One, the first child who Dr. Brenner (Matthew Modine) experimented on and the one who committed the massacre at the Hawkins lab. However, he fails to kill Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), who banishes him to the Upside Down. Ever since then, he has been plotting his revenge, causing chaos and sending the various monsters to attack Eleven and her friends. He is gravely injured in the Season 4 finale but succeeds in opening up a massive gate in Hawkins, setting the stage for the final showdown in Season 5.
Bower teased Vecna's inevitable return, warning that his Season 4 defeat only made him angrier. "He's pissed, he's properly vexed," Bower explained. "I don't think he's slunk off licking his wounds in misery. He's rebuilding, and he's out for blood. It's like, you're really fucking pushed the buttons now, that classic Jason Voorhees [the killer in Friday the 13th] thing—you've made a big mistake."
Season 5 of Stranger Things, which will be the sci-fi drama's last, is currently in the early stages of development. The writers have only just started writing the eight-episode season, which does not yet have a premiere date.
Source: Happy Sad Confused