Stranger Things star reveals Netflix scrapped their heartbreaking final line that would have changed everything
Not everything can make the final cut
There's over 45 hours of content across the five seasons of Stranger Things, yet inevitably not everything can fit into the final cut, and everything from minor moments to potentially major story beats are left on the floor.
Most of these moments will never come to light and fans are often none the wiser, yet sometimes you can gain access to deleted scenes or hints from the show's creators or stars into things that we weren't technically supposed to know.
One potentially major detail has emerged in a recent interview with an important actor from the show, and fans have been left heartbroken after learning about what they've missed in the final cut.
As shared by Comicbook.com, Jamie Campbell Bower is an actor you might not necessarily recognize right away, but he's actually the man behind Vecna — Stranger Things' primary antagonist.
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Being a demonic presence that's constantly after the main cast of characters, its uncommon that Vecna gets the chance to sit down and have a chat, but there was actually one line suggested by Bower in his final moments on the show that could have changed everything.
Revealing it all during an interview on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Bower revealed the two words he wanted to utter that would have had major significance for the story, especially in relation to the stage play, Stranger Things: The First Shadow:
"I wanted to try and convey the words 'please don't'," Bower revealed, before going on to explain why this would have been so important. "I don't know if anybody here has seen The First Shadow, which is the play they've done of Stranger Things and the sort of Henry Creel backstory, and obviously Henry and Joyce, within that, have met each other.
"So when she kind of walks up to him, I felt like in that moment, that the humanity could come through a little bit more and we could just reintroduce that level of sort of potential maybe he could be saved at that point."
He previously suggested the addition of ADR back in season four of the Netflix show during a confrontation with Eleven and that worked great, so he decided to shoot his shot again and offer another suggestion right at the climax of his character.
"Anyway, we get to ADR for season five. I'm like gurgling and I'm like I remember all I wanted to say was 'please don't', and we try it and it just didn't work," Bower illustrates. "It didn't land, but the emotion is there. I tried it, yeah, it wasn't good."
This might have changed things significantly for the fanbase and offered a vastly different ending for Vecna despite his gruesome demise, yet now it's something we can only imagine in our heads instead of seeing it play out in the show itself.