‘Stranger Things’ Star Jamie Campbell Bower Teases ‘Completely Insane’ Final Season: ‘It’s Out of Control’

Even Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) says the final season of Netflix hit “Stranger Things” is totally “bonkers.”

Bower said during the iHeart show “I’ve Never Said This Before With Tommy DiDario” that the upcoming Season 5 is “out of control,” especially compared to Season 4.

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“If you thought last season was nuts, this season is just out of control, wild, like, it’s bonkers. It really, really is,” Bower said. “It’s bigger. It’s just completely insane. It’s completely insane.”

Season 5 has already been teased to rival blockbuster films in terms of episode length, cost, and scale. Still, the “Stranger Things” universe is expanding so rapidly it can’t be contained to the series.

“It’s just continually building. It’s been really interesting as well to have the play on in London, which I went to go and see, which goes back to Henry before we met him in Season 4,” Bower said of his character origin story as a prequel to the show. “And to have a lot of the questions or a lot of the thoughts that I had about that character kind of answered by watching the play and also discover more, was really interesting for me.”

Bower’s co-star Maya Hawke recently told Entertainment Tonight that filming the final season was “heartbreaking” for the cast.

“As a late addition cast member, I feel like it’s my job to be here to facilitate their feelings and just be grateful and excited to have been a part of it at all,” Hawke said. “It’s already starting to be heartbreaking, you know? I mean it’s the end of a really long journey. Longer for some of my castmates, even, than for me. So it’s really sentimental.”

“Stranger Things” Season 5 will premiere later in 2024. The ensemble cast additionally includes David Harbour, Winona Ryder, Joe Keery, Sadie Sink, Finn Wolfhard, and more.

“Stranger Things” series director and executive producer Shawn Levy revealed during the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast in November 2023 that the final season will be “epic in its cinematic scope” especially, with episodes clocking in at close to two hours.

“I have to credit [creators] the Duffer Brothers. You read the outlines sometimes and it’s massive, but then you read the scripts and you remember again and again that their instinct for anchoring the epic in the intimate, and for anchoring the darkness of genre in the warmth of these characters, it’s so innate to them,” Levy said. “Season 5 gets bigger in scale but doesn’t forget who or what it is.”

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