Ronnie James Dio’s estate gave the Stranger Things team the Dio patch worn by new character Eddie Munson in the show.Munson, played by Joseph Quinn, is the leader of The Hellfire Club and a “metalhead”, as the actor told NME recently.The one outfit viewers see Munson in during the new series of Stranger Things includes a denim jacket with a Dio patch covering its back.
In an interview on the Netflix website, costume designer Amy Parris has now revealed that the patch came directly from the metal icon’s estate.“I love Eddie.
I think Eddie feels so real,” Parris said. “And he’s wearing one thing because he’s in that outfit the whole time, so I really focused and zeroed in on making sure everything in that outfit was authentic.It was great to see this vintage DIO design on the recent episode of @Stranger_Things!
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