[Ed. note: This post goes into detail about what happens to Eddie Munson in Stranger Things 4.]
Oh Eddie Munson, we hardly knew ye. Although audiences had been launched to Eddie in Stranger Issues 4 as an Upside Down Doof Warrior and a kind of D&Douche main the Hellfire membership, he shortly captured the hearts of followers, making his premature dying by the hands of Demobats all of the extra stunning.
It’s a destiny that not even Joseph Quinn, the actor who performs Eddie, actually appreciates — significantly since he died a hero however leaves behind a legacy of villainy, at the very least so far as Hawkins residents stirred up by the Satanic Panic of all of it imagine. However Quinn factors out that it’s an indication of Stranger Issues persevering with to return into its personal.
“I don’t suppose it’s particularly reasonable. However I believe it type of suits into the remainder of the theme of the season — it’s extra grownup, it’s brutal, it’s extra scary, and it’s this type of sense that life isn’t at all times simple,” Quinn says. “You’re feeling prefer it’s extra mature. And while we’d all like Eddie to grow to be celebrated and get the hero’s dying he deserves, I believe it’s type of classier storytelling.”
Although Eddie was a newcomer to the Stranger Issues world, he match into the present’s bigger focus of outsiders in each kind. A metal-loving, pot-dealing, D&D-playing nerd, Eddie had a little bit of a chip on his shoulder that made him a simple goal for the city to latch onto as a villain. However as the primary solid of characters know, his dying was nothing wanting valiant: completely shredding “Grasp of Puppets” by Metallica on high of a trailer within the Upside Down, and charging into battle to maintain the bats away from Steve, Robin, and Nancy’s battle with the Vecna.
Whereas it looks as if Eddie may’ve merely performed guitar to make noise, moderately than expertly soloing via the guitar riffs of “Grasp of Puppets” at size, Quinn is glad his character went that route.
“I obtained some texts — a few fairly elusive texts from the Duffers asking if I performed guitar. I stated sure, and obtained no reply,” Quinn says. Then he obtained the script for the ultimate two episodes and needed to begin practising “loads.” However finally, when it got here time to shoot he felt prepared in additional methods than one.
“We had been nonetheless fairly deep within the throes of the pandemic and it nonetheless felt type of scary. However I keep in mind there was a extremely pretty environment on set as a result of it felt like the primary time the crew and myself [were] in an surroundings the place there was reside music being performed […] and we had been enjoying ‘Grasp of Puppets’ within the Upside Down! That doesn’t occur daily.”
“I don’t suppose there’s very many worlds the place a Metallica live performance wouldn’t really feel ridiculous as a crescendo to a season. [Here] it feels completely earned, and it feels foolish, but it surely feels proper and impressed. And I felt so fortunate to have the ability to have an element in it.”
Stranger Issues 4 is now streaming on Netflix.
