As the new board chair for the ONE Archives Foundation, Chiedu Egbuniwe is dedicated to making sure the LGBTQ+ history repository — the largest in the world — represents the full diversity of the community. Photo: Jon Didier
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Jaime Campbell Bower’s Vecna is one of the most terrifying villains in recent memory. This week, the actor was featured on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and did a reading of some Lizzo lyrics with his Vecna voice. It was mindboggling.Ethan Hawke shares his personal connection to ‘Stranger Things’WATCH: ‘Stranger Things’ star Joseph Quinn performs with Metallica at LollapaloozaCampbell Bower discussed his success with “Stranger Things” and many aspects about his character, including the makeup and THE preparation it took to bring Vecna to life.
“It’s about 90% real,” said Campbell Bower of the makeup, sharing that it takes about eight hours to put on, in a process that starts at 3AM. “I feel sorry for me too,” he said after people gasped in the audience. When discussing Vecna’s voice, he said, “It took a few months to get right.
I was doing the voice and it started in this like, very kind of like nasally? More like Freddy Kreuger and it just wasn’t landing.” Campbell Bower then explained that he went home and did a bunch of horror movie research and landed on a deep and booming voice. “I’m a singer, so I kind of just relaxed myself, relaxed my larynx,” he said. “I was wondering if you would mind doing the Vecna voice for us right now,” said Fallon, handing Campbell Bower a microphone.
“We put some of your lines on cue cards, the twist is that they’re all things Vecna would never say.” Campbell Bower looks straight at the camera and starts reading through the cue cards, which contain all sorts of things, from Julia Roberts’ most famous lines in romantic movies, to some of Lizzo’s most empowering lyrics. “In a minute, I’ma need a sentimental man or woman to pump me up. Feeling fussy, walkin‘ in my Balenci-ussy’s
.As the new board chair for the ONE Archives Foundation, Chiedu Egbuniwe is dedicated to making sure the LGBTQ+ history repository — the largest in the world — represents the full diversity of the community. Photo: Jon Didier
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Stranger Things and Lizzo mash-up happened – and now it’s finally here. Jamie Campbell Bower, who plays villain Vecna, was practicing his character’s gravelly voice and he sounded Good as Hell when he recited the chartopper’s lyrics. The 33-year-old actor was discussing how he found the monster’s voice during Wednesday night’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
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Stranger Things star Jamie Campbell Bower, who appears as the villainous Upside Down monster Vecna in the show’s fourth season, has shown off the terrifying voice he uses for the character – by reciting Lizzo lyrics.While appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Bower explained how he first came up with the low, menacing voice that his character uses throughout the show, saying that he was inspired by Doug Bradley’s portrayal of Hellraiser. “It said that this deep, booming voice kind of comes out of the darkness,” he said.
Lizzo-meets-Vecna vibes. Jamie Campbell Bower dove into the process behind his terrifying villain on Tuesday night, telling host Jimmy Fallon about how he developed his character's bone-chilling voice before delivering some classic pop culture lines as Vecna. «It took a few months to get right,» he said of the vocal work. «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.»Bower sat behind co-star Millie Bobby Brown at the first table read, where his initial version of Vecna «started in this very kinda nasally area,» he said.
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What would it have sounded like if Vecna was in Titanic, asking Leonardo DiCaprio to draw him like one of Jack’s French girls? Well, odds are, you’ve never actually wondered that. But Jamie Campbell Bower has an answer for you anyway.Appearing on “The Tonight Show” on Monday night, Bower was asked by host Jimmy Fallon how the now familiar – and terrifying – voice of Vecna came to be.
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