‘Stranger Things’ star Jamie Campbell Bower went to therapy after starring role: ‘F–ks me up’

“Stranger Things” in Season 4 as Vecna and got candid at MegaCon Orlando on Feb. 9 about taking a break from playing villains.While on a panel, Bower explained that although he’s not worried about being typecast as a villain, he wants to step back from the archetype.“It’s funny.

I was talking to my therapist the other day,” he recalled. “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.”“The Mortal Instruments” star assured the crowd that he was “dead serious” about the therapy session, stating, “I’m not lying.”Bower, who also sat through eight hours of special effects makeup applications for the role, added, “Like it f–ks me up.

I’m dead serious.”But the Netflix vet shared that he was still grateful for being part of the iconic horror series.“It’s been amazing, and it’s been an incredible journey, to join the show from Season 4, to be part of something that so many people love and something that I loved as well and still love.

But I definitely am ready to hang up the foam latex and wish him a slippery farewell,” Bower said.Season 5 is set to follow the residents of Hawkins who are caught up in the mysteries surrounding the Upside Down, including facing Vecna once and for all.A release date has yet to be announced for the final season, but creators and executive producers Matt and Ross Duffer (aka The Duffer Brothers) recently compared this installment to making “eight blockbuster movies.”“We think it’s our most personal story,” Matt told Deadline in January.