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When fans approach Schnapp, they usually say, I found Will!
The scene: Will hears something and walks to his front door, which opens, and he goes outside and sees the Mind Flayer for the first time.
which makes him laugh.
Yeah, it was fake, he says with a laugh.
I always wish I could just see theStranger Thingsfrom an audience standpoint and not from mine.
Cause when I watch it, I remember someone was behind there and behind there.
I just cant watch it like a viewer.
But I love seeing something on paper come to TV.
Schnapp spoke to Vulture about the challenges he faced and the fun he had filming the second season.
Theres gonna be eight episodes.
It has the scary aspect, but a lot from season one in terms of the friendships.
Okay, Im gonna shut up now.
Chapter One: Madmax
That scene had a lot of really crazy little tricks.
It was really fun to film.
And this was all on a set there was no outside.
Three people had these massive, big propeller backpacks that made wind.
It was so loud.
And then, they had these guys with strobe lights to form the monster.
So there was a lot going on.
I just had to just get this image of something really big and scary in my head.
I just had to make it up.
Chapter Two: Trick or Treat, Freak
That was really outside.
And it was like 4:30 in the morning when were filming that scene.
That was the scene where they first showed me what the shadow monster would look like.
It was really scary and weird.
I remember after we went back into a green room in this house.
The owner of the house, her son was a big fan of the show.
I remember taking a picture and it was so funny.
He had all these different sketches of spiders and there were guys with like ten arms.
It was just all these different things.
Up until I saw it, I just thought of something really big.
Like a plastic monster that was really big.
Like a giant person.
Chapter Three: The Pollywog
That was on a green screen and it was outside.
That scene was super hard, cause I was just yelling at absolutely nothing.
I had to film when it was coming inside my nose and my mouth.
Like, the green screen would always be in front of the camera.
Theyd spin around me.
It was really fun.
I loved that night, so fun.
I love filming at night.
Im like a night owl.
I dont remember how many times we did it, but we did it many times.
Chapter Nine: The Gate
There were so many different things I had to prepare for.
During the table read, reading the script, I was just like,Wow.
There was a part where I am possessed and that was a little hard.
Id watch movies likeThe Exorcist.
And it was really scary.
When I had to have a little seizure, I looked up videos of people having seizures.
I remember looking up symptoms and what happens to your body.
You kind of just lock up and I had to prepare for that.A lot.
There was just so much going on.
The heaters didnt actually heat up.
It wasnt really hot.It was actually really cold, cause it was winter.
I was screaming the whole night, and the next morning I woke up and my voice had disappeared.
For the CGI, they had to put these dots all over my neck.
They just got a Sharpie and drew all over my neck and I looked like a leopard or something.
But it was really fun.
I loved getting to work with Winona [Ryder] and Charlie [Heaton].
We filmed til like seven in the morning.
It was also our very last night of filming, so everyone was kind of happy and sad.
