Jaime Campbell Bower reads Lizzo lyrics as Vecna and breaks the internet
us.hola.comJaime 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.
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