While he may not have gotten the chance to be the hero of other big franchises, Bower has for sure made a name for himself as the ultimate villain on Stranger Things. Bower is confirmed to reprise his role as the big bad for Stranger Thing's fifth and final season. Then long term, he ended up landing a role that I think has the potential to go down as one of the most iconic villains on modern television.īower has been open about what it was like filming Vecna’s first big kills on Stranger Things and how he prepared to play Vecna before the intense prosthetics got applied. James Metcalfe 'Jamie' Campbell Bower (born 22 November 1988) is a English actor who portrays teenage Gellert Grindelwald in the film adaptations of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and reprised his role for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Obviously his chances to be a part of these franchises came along. There was this air of silence after I said it. Jamie Campbell Bower has had an incredible career blow-up, thanks to his villainous role as Vecna on Season 4 of 'Stranger Things. It’s a really dirty joke because it’s about a Christmas tree being up someone's bottom. I had just heard this joke about the reason the fairy sits on top of the Christmas tree. I went to go meet Chris Columbus in London for the first Potter and they asked us to prepare a joke. He explained on the podcast that he thinks one of the reasons he didn’t end up making it far in the audition process was because of a joke he told, saying: They came to my school to look for potential Potters or potential cast members and pulled me out of a bunch of people.īower ended up playing Young Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and reprised the same role in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

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