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Levitation, Murder, Mind Flayers And Tenderness Are All In A Day’s Work On ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ — Tony Watch Q&A With Louis McCartney
Deadline interview with the hot new Broadway star Louis McCartney.
McCartney’s unassuming looks are perfect for Henry Creel, the lead role and major driver of the spooky and even horrific action of the stage play that serves as the prequel, or origin story, of the wildly popular Netflix supernatural thriller Stranger Things. Fans of the Netflix series know from the moment he first mentions his name – the words “Henry Creel” draw an audible gasp from an audience that already knows the goofy little kid we see before us will eventually morph into Vecna, the sadistic, humanoid killer from the Upside Down who over the decades will bring all sorts of bad trouble to the children of Hawkins, Indiana. The play was written by Kate Trefry from a story herself, Matt & Ross Duffer, and Jack Thorne, and McCartney’s involvement, acclaim and quick rise to fame from a place of inexperience calls to mind that other out-of-nowhere acting phenomenon in a Jack Thorne creation currently topping the Netflix charts and dominating the thoughts and conversations of TV views: Adolescence, with its young star Owen Cooper as another seemingly and conflicted mild-mannered boy who harbors a vicious killer deep within himself.
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