You never feel like your voice isn’t heard or that you haven’t been considered,” he said. These scenes are partially the result of Montgomery’s input. What emerges is a beach-scape where Eleven sees Billy’s memories as a young boy in California with his biological mother, before she had abandoned him and his abusive father. When it comes to Billy, however, she must go deeper since his psyche is buried beneath the Mind Flayer’s. Usually when Eleven exercises her powers, she enters into a mental void that has no scenery or furniture – only a vision of the people she’s seeking. “Pretty much the whole way throughout, keeping in mind Jack Nicholson’s choices are really interesting, but making my own choices, in the monologue, in anything, it’s really important.” “In terms of my actual acting, I don’t really like to to copy anyone or replicate anything that I’ve seen,” said Montgomery. The speech can be heard in voiceover in the Season 3 trailer: “So I went back and watched ‘Chinatown’ and ‘The Shining’ for the contrast between those two characters in each of those films, and how they’re similar.”Īs the Mind Flayer in a Billy suit, Montgomery was also able to deliver a menacing monologue threatening the super-powered Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown). “In all of his films, he makes really interesting acting choices that I don’t think are predictable, and I think that keeps the audience on their toes,” he said. Montgomery revealed that he studied Jack Nicholson’s career for inspiration. It’s a chilling performance that is calm and steely one moment, and volcanic and violent the next. And thus a new Billy is born, one who is remorseless and acquires new bodies for the Mind Flayer to take over one by one. Wheeler thing at the start of the season, and that’s what they get, but then so quickly it takes a very quick turn somewhere far darker.” Dacre Montgomery, “Stranger Things” Courtesy of Netflixīut before he can make good on his rendezvous, Billy is pulled into the Brimborn Steelworks where the newly escaped Mind Flayer takes over his body. But it’s really interesting, because I think that people imagine the Mrs. “I wanted to embody those qualities, definitely. “I recall very early Mel Gibson films where he’s kind of cheeky,” said the actor. Despite his rather sleazy proposal, Montgomery makes sure that Billy comes off as charming. Karen Wheeler (Cara Buono) in a heated conversation filled with double entendres. He’s a sun god whose tanned pecs and abs turn hot mom heads at the community swimming pool, and he continues his flirtation with the very married Mrs. When the season opens, it’s the summer of 1985 in Hawkins, and Billy is even cockier than before.
So you kind of have a rough idea, but I didn’t know Billy’s story was going to be as big as it is by any means. “But here’s often a discussion about where your character arc is going to go at the start of the show. ‘Stranger Things’ Turns High School Upside-Down for Season 3 Red Carpet Premiere – Photos It’s very hard to keep up,” Montgomery said. The deal is they haven’t really written them, so when you’re doing Episodes 1 and 2, they’re only really finishing up writing Episodes 3 and 4. “There’s a table read, but only for Episodes 1 and 2. Well, the human vessel of the other-worldly monster antagonist. He actually had no clue that co-creators Matt and Ross Duffer had wanted to beef up his role significantly from annoying jerk to the creepy main antagonist. Unfortunately, it’s at the cost of his own life.ĭespite closing that chapter on his brief “Stranger Things” career, Dacre Montgomery is thrilled with where Billy was able to go this season. The former high school bully had won plenty of enemies when he had joined “Stranger Things” last season, but after getting possessed by the Mind Flayer this year, Billy finds the strength to fight back to save others.
Billy Hargrove died as he lived: loud and defiant.
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