'Stranger Things' star Jamie Campbell Bower is 'grateful' for the fact that fans think Vecna is 'sexy'

• Jamie Campbell Bower said that he's "grateful" that people think Vecna is "sexy."
• As Vecna in "Stranger Things," the actor wears full-body prosthetics that give him a slimy appearance.

Jamie Campbell Bower said that he's "grateful" that people find his "Stranger Things" character Vecna hot.

The actor, who joined the show during its fourth season to play the villain, reacted to TikTok posts, tweets, and memes about his character in a Netflix featurette video, running the gamut from cosplay to thirsty posts about the villain.

One such post showed TikToker @diariesofaholyknight pretending to lick an image of Vecna, along with the on-screen caption, "Am I the only one that thinks the Vecna is hot?"

"That man just licked my nasal cavity uninvited," Bower said. "I mean I'm grateful — well, I, me, Barry Gower, Duncan Jarman, the whole effects team — we're very grateful for the fact that you think the V-man's sexy, but next time, let me know before you lick my nostrils."

As Vecna, Bower wore full-body prosthetics that transformed him into a noseless, humanoid creature covered in slimy looking vines who resides in the Upside Down, the dark parallel dimension of "Stranger Things." From there, he attempts to exact revenge on Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), who banished him to the realm after he massacred all of the other children in the Hawkins National Lab where she grew up.

Bower previously expressed confusion with people's attraction to Vecna while taking part in BuzzFeed's famous "thirst tweet" segment.

"Man's got tendrils and a big left hand. Maybe that's what you're into, I don't know," Bower said.

Still, there's one more thing that puzzles him — "Vecnussy," a portmanteau of "Vecna" and slang for a vagina (the "ussy" suffix, as Vulture reported, is a popular meme).

"My Vecnussy, what is it? I don't even know where it is. I don't know what it is," Bower said in the Netflix featurette. "I put as much as I had of my Vecnussy into 'Stranger Things,' but if you can help me find my Vecnussy so that I can then put it into something else, that would be fantastic."