[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 form of D&Douche main the Hellfire membership, he rapidly captured the hearts of followers, making his premature loss of life 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 consider. However Quinn factors out that it’s an indication of Stranger Issues persevering with to return into its personal.
“I don’t assume it’s particularly reasonable. However I believe it type of matches 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 turn into celebrated and get the hero’s loss of life 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 straightforward goal for the city to latch onto as a villain. However as the primary solid of characters know, his loss of life was nothing in need of 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 like Eddie might’ve merely performed guitar to make noise, slightly than expertly soloing by the guitar riffs of “Grasp of Puppets” at size, Quinn is glad his character went that route.
“I received some texts — a few fairly elusive texts from the Duffers asking if I performed guitar. I stated sure, and received no reply,” Quinn says. Then he received the script for the ultimate two episodes and needed to begin practising “loads.” However in the end, 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 bear 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 setting the place there was stay music being performed […] and we had been enjoying ‘Grasp of Puppets’ within the Upside Down! That doesn’t occur each day.”
“I don’t assume 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, however it 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.
