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New Stranger Things<\/a> baddie Vecna<\/a> is an impressive specimen onscreen \u2013 but all that menace didn\u2019t come easily, with actor Jamie Campbell Bower forced to sit through seven long hours of make-up and prosthetics application before he got close to popping any teens\u2019 eyes with his mind.<\/p>\n Recently, we caught up with prosthetics make-up designer Barrie Gower to find out how he and his team brought Vecna to life \u2013 and it\u2019s fair to say that poor Jamie needed all those iced coffees.<\/p>\n \u201cEverything was pre-painted. We glued everything on,\u201d Gower told RadioTimes.com<\/strong>.<\/p> \u201cWe had to join all the dots up, and airbrush all the colours and everything, and make everything beautiful. We got his lenses in \u2013 his contact lenses.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was about an eight-and-a-half hour process, that first time with Jamie, from start to finish.\u201d<\/p>\n Still, as the team got more used to the procedure they managed to cut the time down and come up with a few shortcuts \u2013 though it was still a pretty hefty wait for Bower.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we got it down to about six hours and 20 odd minutes,\u201d Gower said. \u201cThat was our record. But it averaged about seven hours, I think. Something like that.<\/p>\n \u201cThe actual application process, it was a well-orchestrated dance. It was the four of us, applying his makeup. And we would be doing this kind of dance around him. Somebody had to be at a certain place at a certain time.<\/p>\n can’t talk rn, i’m becoming vecna.