When Season 4 of Stranger Things ended, fans had a lot of opinions about the final confrontation with Vecna. There was a lot to talk about, and the team behind Stranger Things understood that it was an important scene. A video interview with stars Joe Keery and Maya Hawke breaks down a part of the battle for fans as the duo shares behind-the-scenes secrets, their own reactions, and favorite moments.

Netflix released a special featurette called 'Shot By Shot' that focused on the final clash between Vecna and the Hawkins crew in Stranger Things. Keery's Steve Harrington and Hawke's Robin Buckley are crucial to the confrontation, as they are part of the team that visits the Upside Down to kill Vecna while the rest of the crew distracts him and his monstrous bats. The stars speak about the moment when their characters arrive at Vecna's home and get attacked by the vines. They break down each moment in the scene and explain how it was filmed.

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It begins with the moment where Steve, Robin and Natalia Dyer's Nancy Wheeler begin to climb a staircase. The vines were all added post-production as visual effects, and the stars had to follow a taped pathway. “It was like playing hopscotch with imaginary vines,” says Hawke. Each actor interacted with the taped pathway differently, which is reflected in the scene in the Stranger Things finale. The most difficult moment for Hawke was the earthquake. “I’ve never actually experienced an earthquake,” she said, and so found it difficult to act naturally.

When the trio gets pulled by the vines, each actor was wearing a safety harness underneath their clothes. Hawke was the first to get pulled back, and “it was silly” because her hands were not tied, so she had to hold her arms out on her own as she hung in midair. At this moment, Keery's Steve uses a hammer to try and cut the vines, but the actors revealed that during one take, the hammer slipped from Keery's hands and flew into a camera lens. While it was a great shot, the creators weren’t happy that the camera was broken.

The actors’ favorite moment was obviously the face-off with Vecna in the attic. They reveal that it was a “beautiful set,” but the scene was more complicated to film. They praise their co-star Dyer for the shotgun scene when her character is walking towards Vecna and shooting him. The prop gun “really does fire back,” revealed Hawke, as she spoke about Dyer's “extraordinary” performance. Keery agreed and compared her to Sigourney Weaver in Alien. Turns out the duo enjoyed watching the scene as much as fans did.

Stranger Things is streaming on Netflix.

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