Hello, hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of Fluently Forward. I'm kind of giggling

because if you're watching on Spotify or over for YouTube. I am in fact dressed up as a version of

Vecna because today we are covering and we're doing a deep dive all into Jamie Campbell Bauer who

played Vecna and Henry and Eleven and Peter the Orderly,

all throughout Stranger Things. And I just think that Stranger Things was such a cool franchise,

even though I think it's still continuing. I've been hearing rumors of like different spinoffs,

and I know that there was a Stranger Things play and all of this stuff. But to me personally,

my favorite part of season five was seeing Jamie Campbell Bauer on my screen playing Vecna and all these different characters.

And wow, like what an acting masterclass. Masterclass. I just feel like every time he was on screen,

I was absolutely captivated and he brought so much to Vecna. Like, you know, you watch Stranger Things the first few seasons. I'm like, oh my God, 11. She's so cool. The minute he came on, I was like, that's the one to watch right there. And I'll talk a little bit at the end of the episode about what I thought about season five. It wasn't my favorite season of all of Stranger Things, but'll save that for the end. But the more research I did into Jamie Campbell-Bauer, I was like, wow, he's really for the girls. And I don't mean that he's gay because he has dated women. We're going to talk about his dating history. And I don't mean that he's a bachelor because he is currently dating someone. But I mean more so that I was reading all of these interviews and I'm like, wow, he's very self-aware. He's very composed. Great actor. He does music. He does erotica. Like he has read what's it called? I think it's called reading erotica, right? For like the Quinn app where it's like, what was I about to just reenact it for a second? I don't need to reenact it. You know what it is. Okay. He's like reading sexy stories. Okay, moving on. But he's also very woo-woo and into the spiritual. And I just had a lot of fun diving into his interviews and being like, yeah, you know what? Hell yeah. So I feel like he's for the girls in that sense. Like everything that I was checking off in my list, I'm like,

it's very fluently forward coded. And I'm also excited to dive into him

because anyone who watch Stranger Things, you're like, wow, this guy, we are going to be seeing a lot of him in the future.

I mean, he's just such a phenomenal actor. And I had heard online,

I was like, okay, yeah, he was in Twilight for a little small something. He was in Harry Potter for

something. He was in like a movie with Lily Collins that kind of had a bit of a divergent feel to

it. Like I think I saw some edits on TikTok, but that was about it. But you just know that

his career is going to be like off like a rocket ship. He's already filming some things coming up next,

which we'll talk about at the end of the episode. But I love seeing people who get famous

after they've been at it for a while. Like Chapel Rhone, Bruno Mars, Charlie X-EX becoming a pop star in her 30s,

or Pedro Pascal becoming like such an A-list actor in his 40s. And now that I'm thinking about it,

I do kind of see some similarities to Pedro Pascal because I remember when he was Ober and Martel in Game

Thrones, the minute he was on screen, I was like,

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