3 Months Later, ‘Stranger Things’ Star Says There's Still Unfinished Business Between Vecna and Will [Exclusive]

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Published Mar 18, 2026, 4:49 PM EDT

For a show built on unfinished trauma, psychic residue, and monsters that never really stay buried, it makes perfect sense that Stranger Things fans still have a lot of questions about the connection between Henry Creel and Will Byers. Even with the show now over, there is a feeling that those two characters were always tied together in a way that went beyond plot convenience. And series star Jamie Campbell Bower clearly feels that too.

During an appearance at Awesome Con, on a panel moderated by Collider’s Maggie Lovitt, Bower was asked about Henry and Will, and whether things might have been different if Henry had a stronger support system as Will did. His answer did not suddenly rewrite the character or pretend Henry was secretly redeemable, but it did suggest there was still more going on under the surface than fans may have fully clocked. He told fans:

“I think it’s really interesting, that some of them, I think if we had seen that scene in Season 5 and knowing the ending of The First Shadow, and now we could challenge the antithesis between accepting this entity and this [thing] inside of him and keeping his power necessary to help us, it did reach back and definitely create a conundrum within him.”

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He kept going and dropped a particularly thrilling tease for Will Byers fans: “There’s a potential that Will had powers and was stronger as more time went along. But I liked it because I’m like I’m the… yeah, you know, there’s a bit of him still left in Will from all those years ago.” He also admitted that Will always felt like the right emotional target for Henry’s story, even before the full shape of it was obvious. “I always was like, why Will? Why go back to Will? It just felt appropriate," said Bower.

That last part is maybe the most revealing. Not “logical.” Not “necessary.” Appropriate. That suggests something instinctive, something emotional, something unresolved. And Bower did not stop there. He pretty much spelled out that, in his mind, the conflict was never fully settled: “I feel like there is more to be uncovered here. I feel like there is a beast that needs to be squashed between these two.”

Stranger Things is streaming now on Netflix.