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STAY. AWAY. FROM. HER. DAUGHTER. Go behind the scenes to see how this epic Karen Wheeler moment came to life.

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00:00What would Karen do if she encounters a Demogorgon?

00:10Stay away from my daughter.

00:16I don't think there was a take where I didn't go full out on it.

00:21It was kind of incredible to be part of such a pivotal scene.

00:30It was our dream to do a supernatural home invasion sequence essentially.

00:49The fact that the Wheeler house has been safe from all of this I think makes it that much

00:53more horrifying that it is breached.

01:02This was one of the most complicated sequences in season five but took a lot of planning.

01:08The whole sequence was storyboarded and pre-vis because it involved a lot of work from every

01:13single department.

01:14We had the Wheeler house on stage.

01:16It's like one of the few standing sets for Stranger Things that's been up since season

01:22one in various forms.

01:24We needed to use cranes and so we had to use three walls that were removable and we had

01:29to choose which wall needed to go away.

01:32We needed to create that red rift light coming down into her room and also give room for her

01:37to get yanked up.

01:39We wanted as much as possible for those stunts to be performed by the actors.

01:43Kara was game.

01:45Nell was a total badass.

01:47I had like this massive harness on.

01:50I was walking like a complete penguin.

01:53She was in wires and in a harness a lot this season and she was such a rock star.

01:59Just game for all of it.

02:00There's a demogorgon that's got a hold of her and there's not a demogorgon there so we

02:04have to create that look so there was even a line on her leg to look like she was being

02:09pulled.

02:10Stop!

02:11One of the difficulties for me was remembering that I had to keep that leg straight because

02:16obviously that's where all my weight is being pulled from.

02:20The stunt team were really amazing and they helped me figure it all out so that I could focus

02:25on the performance.

02:26Stop!

02:27Stop!

02:28Stop!

02:29Stop!

02:30Stop!

02:31Stop!

02:32Stop!

02:33What the heck?

02:34It's the proximity of evil and stranger things that motivates the flickering lights.

02:40Everything gets run through a board where we have a remote operator who's taking cues

02:46and is able to control remotely every single light on set.

02:49Typically when just a single light flickers we might have something like this.

02:54This is what we actually called the Holly flicker which was in Holly's room.

02:57This here is the lighting plot for this stage.

03:00We've got 40 to 50 in just her room and over the whole stage is about 600.

03:05The bottom of the tub was cut off and attached to the bottom of the tank so that two people

03:24could fit in it.

03:25We tested it out to make sure that we liked the lens and that we could line it up.

03:29We also needed to basically sync up the cadence.

03:32The top edge of the tub is actually the cut line.

03:35Both dolly grips for that shot had to work in unison essentially to match the other's timing

03:41so that there was no speed change.

03:43When we dunked this I made sure that Kara's nightgown wasn't too see-through so it's double

03:48layered because I didn't want it to be too clingy especially if you're going to see any

03:52stunt pads or protection underneath.

03:53With Nell luckily it's street clothes that can be wet and stay wet.

03:59Karen is wearing a wig that has been bleached blonde and that has been permed.

04:03Some of the coolest shots were where it was kind of like moving and crossing and covering.

04:07Lots of rehearsal time with them prior to and being able to go under the water and hold

04:13their breath.

04:14We had to put weight belts on them so that they would stay on the bottom and not float up.

04:19You would squeeze my hand or I would squeeze your hand which signaled, you know, 3, 2,

04:241, up.

04:29We could have held our breath longer.

04:30We, I think we ended up having little competitions.

04:34Yeah.

04:35I was like just waiting for Kara to squeeze my hand, I was like I could stay here all day.

04:40We needed to know exactly where the Demogorgon was at every single moment so the actors and

04:50everyone working on it understood where it was.

04:53Chief!

04:54Oh yeah.

04:55We have a fantastic Demogorgon stand in named JD.

04:59We're not doing motion capture, any kind of performance capture with him.

05:02He is there so that the other actors and crew can see the Demogorgon is going to be there,

05:07they're going to be this big and this is what they're going to be doing.

05:10We definitely go through rehearsals first.

05:12We have Ted swinging the golf club trying to find out exactly where he should hit the

05:17kickpad.

05:18If you see that orange X on the kickpad right there, that's actually the eyeline for Ted.

05:22The bros wanted the POV of the Demogorgon so we had to build roads and platforms in

05:28order to get the steady cam at that height.

05:31We also use a Demogorgon head that the VFX team has made to see how it kind of behaves with

05:36whatever lighting is set up for the scene.

05:41Once I slashed Ted, we get the stunt double in there and he just goes tearing through the

05:47wall.

05:48Oh my gosh, look at that.

05:57Wow.

05:58It was a little bit of a challenge because we knew this destruction was going to happen

06:04so we had to find some doubles of various things.

06:07So I had to find two of the same armoire.

06:09We had to make doubles of all the drapes and stuff.

06:11We had a Demogorgon claw that matches the nail handprint of a Demogorgon.

06:17So we just used that to drag along the walls.

06:19When we were shooting the scene, I came up and I saw the total and complete destruction

06:23of Nancy's room and our room and the set.

06:27And I was very affected by seeing it.

06:30It brought back that memory of when the Duffer said, come see your house.

06:33We just finished building the Wheeler house and this is your kitchen and this is everything.

06:37Flash forward to now, this is the end of the house.

06:39Literally, not just saying, we're done shooting here.

06:41It was destroyed.

06:43This was a Texas switch.

06:54So Kara and Nell were starting the scene up on top of the stairs running down.

06:59Kara would duck out to the wall and the stunt double came running in and took the fall.

07:03Alice Ford, who doubled Kara, was a great match for her.

07:08She knocked this one out of the park.

07:09Oh!

07:10Oh!

07:11Oh!

07:12Oh!

07:13Holly, get back!

07:14Oh!

07:15Oh!

07:16Oh!

07:17Oh!

07:18Oh!

07:19What would she do if she encounters a Demogorgon?

07:21Karen shares so many qualities with Nancy.

07:25That sort of ferocity, that strength, that courage, that bravery is such a part of who

07:30Nancy is also exists within Karen.

07:33Ah!

07:34Because they're struggling as a family to deal with what's happening with Holly.

07:37You're ridiculous.

07:38You don't even know how old she is.

07:39I'm not talking to you when you're late.

07:41We wanted to see Karen slightly intoxicated and the idea that then, you know, she would then

07:48use this wine bottle as a weapon was a fun idea.

07:51We worked really closely with Hedo to come up with what the Demogorgon would be doing

07:56and how Karen could interact with him.

07:59We wanted to really make sure it felt like they're both in that room together.

08:03We did some with just JD sitting there holding his hand, but she needed something to impact.

08:09We wanted to get in there with, like, a really tight eye line.

08:13We used a piece of foam so that she could really lay into it.

08:18Kara ended up swinging that wine bottle for almost an hour.

08:22I don't think there was a take where I didn't go full out on it.

08:25Mom, no!

08:27No!

08:28Stay away from my daughter!

08:32The scream I did after breaking the bottle, this primal sound came out.

08:52Whether she even knows what the heck is going on.

08:57There's a monster in her kitchen and she's going to fight to save her daughter.

09:02No!

09:03I don't think that they were anticipating the ferocity.

09:07Kara was actually saying, I want you to really hit me.

09:24I want you to hit me hard.

09:25I was looking at Hedo like, should I do this?

09:28And Kara's like, yeah, just hit me.

09:29So, you know, I go for it and I'm being a little careful.

09:33And she's like, no, no, harder.

09:34I want to feel it.

09:35So I'm like, oh, really?

09:36Okay.

09:37So I go a little harder and she's not wearing any pads or anything.

09:43When it comes to the Demogorgon wounds, the Duffers did not want them clean slices.

09:54They wanted them to be very jagged and edged.

09:56Her entire process was under two hours to get her in her deconstructed beauty makeup look,

10:03as well as her wig and her prosthetics on her chest.

10:06Once you start putting blood on a wound, it tends to travel everywhere.

10:10It's like constantly pit crewing, making sure that it all looks the same throughout the

10:15entire day of shooting.

10:17The brutality of what occurs to Karen, we're hoping that it stuns audiences.

10:24I just love that they brought Karen into the story of what's going on in Hawkins and that

10:38she gets to really participate.

10:41It was truly one of my favorite scenes to film ever with you.

10:46This was kind of the start of my journey on Stranger Things.

10:52It was kind of incredible to be part of such a pivotal scene.

10:56We always loved the juxtaposition between the ordinary and the extraordinary.

11:02That really has defined the show for so long, and this is sort of the ultimate example of

11:07those two things colliding.

11:08And I think it shows right away in the season that no one is safe, no place is safe, none

11:13of our characters are safe, even the ones that over the years have been shielded from

11:18these horrors.

11:19No more.

11:20Maybe four broken ribs?

11:21Stand by Danny B.

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