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Jamie Campbell Bower Calls Rings of Power Season 3 the 'Perfect Kind of Antidote' After Stranger Things

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Jamie Campbell Bower Calls Rings of Power Season 3 the 'Perfect Kind of Antidote' After Stranger Things

Jamie Campbell Bower has not been coy about Stranger Things being an emotionally taxing gig. As Vecna (and all of his many iterations) in the final two seasons of the Netflix series, Bower would put himself through intense and isolating experiences in preparation of playing the show's big bad. At MegaCon in early 2025, months ahead of the Stranger Things series finale, Bower said that he told his therapist that he wouldn't "be doing another bad guy for a minute" because it "f---s me up."

Bower's first post-Stranger Things role is, appropriately, miles away from his characters' persistent darkness. He's now starring in the third season of Prime Video's Rings of Power, which picks up five years after Season 2 well into the battle with Sauron, as Galadriel's long-lost husband, the elf Celeborn. Morfydd Clark's Galadriel mentions in Season 1 that Celeborn had not returned from his battle with Morgoth. In Season 3, the semi-estranged couple is reunited. On the red carpet for the season premiere in New York, Bower said that playing Celeborn was refreshing.

"I've been describing it as the perfect kind of antidote, I suppose," he told IGN. "It is so different to what I was doing before, and I'm so grateful to be here and so grateful to join this amazing cast and crew and this world. It's been beautiful. It really has been. It's been gorgeous."

Bower also elaborated on playing a character who has more ambiguity. R. Tolkien wrote several versions of Celeborn's origins, but never settled on one definitively.


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