All language subtitles for Stranger Things 5 Behind The Episode 508 The Rightside Up Netflix

We can do this.

I know it.

One last fight,

and this whole nightmare,
it'll finally be over.

Everything we wanna say
about this show

and the experience of the show

and everything we wanna
say about the story,

we put into that final episode.

It's the highest stakes
that the show has ever been

because we have
to get my sister back.

But also at the same time,
we have to stop Vecna

from creating his own new world.

We're losing
important pieces of our heart.

So I think that this is
about fighting to the bone,

even when you don't know
you're gonna win.

It's Vecna or us,

and we're not gonna stop
until we have saved the world.

Steve!

It was important to us
that a lot of our character arcs

were starting to resolve
as they head into the final battles,

whether it's Jonathan and Nancy,
whether it's Dustin and Steve

to ultimately Will's coming out.

So, really the big
lingering one is Eleven.

That's the big question mark
that we wanted to leave in the air

as we move into the big finale.

All right, listen,
anything you see in here is not real.

It can't hurt you.

The mineshaft is the nucleus
of Henry Creel's trauma.

It is where
Henry Creel became Vecna.

Holly runs into this mineshaft.

Don't shoot.

So he follows her down the shaft
and sees his younger self.

-Who sent you?
-Nobody sent me.

Bang!

This is a repressed memory

of a traumatic experience for Henry,

and ultimately the reason
why his whole life

has ended up being
the way that it has been.

He lost his youth,
his childhood, his love.

It's a wildly traumatic experience.

No wonder he pushed it down.

It shows, you know, Vecna and Will
started in these same points.

They were both sensitive kids,
and they were both a vessel.

It wasn't you.

And they just took
two different paths

and Will fought it to save his friends

and Vecna gave in to it
and became evil.

But Will had
this new sympathy for him

because he was like, "That was me."

"We are not so different

and maybe I could
get through to you."

Don't listen to it, Henry.
It is controlling you right now.

I think the biggest surprise this year

is how the Mind Flayer has evolved.

Run!

The threat is so much bigger.

Just even looking at
some of the early concepts,

I think there was like
a little bit of trepidation,

like, are these kids going
to be able to defeat this thing?

In true Stranger Things fashion,
it's about like the group,

the group as a whole
kind of operating as this unit.

I think we all look cool.

Looking around
at everyone in costumes,

"Wow, we all
look like action heroes."

It's really fun to get to
physically do things that feel huge.

This is for Eddie, you son of a bitch!

For Eddie!

I'm really stoked that
Dustin and Steve stick together

throughout this process.

You know, it's "If you die, I die."

One of the goals was
to make sure that every character

had something very specific to do.

The only way to defeat Vecna,

the only way
to defeat the Mind Flayer

would be if everyone contributed
in some meaningful way.

It's really the party
working together as a team

that they're able to defeat
this evil once and for all.

Eleven versus Vecna
was a huge sequence.

Jamie is a trouper.

I mean, we flew him
on so many different wires.

Ready, and three, two, one.

Go!

And then to have Millie come in
and she loves to fly on the wires.

She was always wanting to do
as much as she could do.

It was wild, because we were
just filming all these, like,

pieces of the stunt together.

You know, it's like
Millie's running up two spikes

and, like, flying into the air.

Or, like, I'm crashing
onto the ground.

But it was cool because, like,

we had a really good time doing it.

Throughout all of the seasons,
Eleven has fought all these beings

that have been formed by Vecna.

And to finally kill the source,

there is a certain kind of energy
I'm trying to harness

that I've never harnessed before.

It's very new to me

because I think I know
there's finality in it.

Will has these powers.

You see this kind of
similarity to Eleven,

and then how they're both
fighting him together at the end.

It's awesome.
It's, like, a kick-ass scene.

I'm not afraid anymore.

We talked a lot about,

you know, who should deal
the final blow to Vecna,

and we really
went through everyone.

And at the end of the day,

it felt like it had to be Joyce

because Joyce was
the one in the first season

who was the first one
to really take action.

Will, are you here?

To believe that something
strange was going on.

I am not gonna stop looking for him
until I find him and bring him home.

And so we thought that would
be a nice payoff after nine years

to actually see her use this ax
and kill this guy.

When I was growing up,
there was, like, this urban legend

that a mother could lift a car up.

Like, some
superhuman strength happens

if it has to do
with saving your kid's life.

You fucked with the wrong family.

And so I wanted to make it
as sort of primal as that.

-That's it for Jamie on the Pain Tree!
-My best moment today!

This is where

we…

made…

Vecna come to life.

When we started on season 5,

we stepped back into
identically the same room,

and it was, like,
two and a half years later,

and everything
was in the same place.

I remember Jamie saying,
"It's just super exciting."

That it's just like
stepping back into an old friend.

He's always embraced it,
and he's always loved it.

And we've always had
so much fun with him

that it's super sad
that we're, you know,

we're about to close the door on it.

I don't know if I'll be able
to take a step away from this.

I don't know.

I'm not ready.

I mean, I am ready,

but, like, I'm not ready.

I'm gonna come back
and haunt the fuck out of this place.

Everyone put your hands up!

-Okay, okay.
-Okay, okay.

El? Do you see El?

She must have escaped.

As a young girl, I couldn't find

my inner voice,

and I can
relate to Eleven in that way.

And I think this season,

she is able to find her voice

and make a decision
that's far greater

than any she's ever made before.

You have to get out of there!
You have to get out!

None of this will ever end,
not if I'm still here.

No, we'll figure something out.

Yeah, that's sort of like Mike's
biggest fear coming true

is, like, saying goodbye to Eleven.

And action.

I was excited to do that scene

because I think rarely Mike
gets to show any kind of

that kind of emotion.

And then this is
the one time in the series

that Mike has
never had a plan, sort of,

and that he, like, has absolutely
no control over anything.

It's just so… beautiful and cathartic

and something that
I've been wanting

for a very long time, personally.

But also for Eleven,
I just think it's incredibly important

that it all ends for her
and the suffering and pain ends.

-We're gonna check that.
-Checking the gate. Very good.

You just got the look like that.

It's the big graduation,

1989, seeing our boy
grow up right before our eyes.

Yes, you know,
we met everybody in 2015.

Finn was up to here on me.

Everyone was half their size.

And I say in the scene,
"You're all grown-up."

And I just couldn't get
the line out half the takes.

I'm so proud of you.

Ladies and gentlemen,

give a warm welcome
for your valedictorian,

Dustin Henderson.

Yeah, buddy!

It's very cool
to see Dustin, of course,

giving his valedictorian speech.

And so I didn't
have to do a lot of acting

to be like, you know,

"Oh man, I'm so proud of this guy

and look at
what he's accomplished."

Screw it. Yeah.

-Screw the school.
-Henderson.

-Screw the system.
-That's enough.

Screw conformity.

Screw everyone and everything

trying to hold you back
and tear us apart

because this, this is our year!

-Yeah!
-Yeah!

They gave us real diplomas,

and mine says
"To William Byers, class of 1989."

And so I'm getting that framed

next to my actual
high school diploma.

I've spent so much time
on set with these people.

And to me, that felt like
the real graduation for me.

I just finished
shooting Stranger Things.

It's really special
because this has been a character

that has been
a part of my childhood.

Bunch of nerds.

Thank you for being
such great, sweet fans.

It really helps
bring the show together

so that we can make sure
we end this

in the best way for you all.

When we were
first working on the season,

that is the first thing we discussed,
is what are the last 20 minutes?

Where do we want
the characters to end up?

The idea of
a final scene in the basement

was the plan
for as long as we can remember.

Something's coming.

Something hungry for blood.

A shadow grows
on the wall behind you.

-What is it?
-What if it's the Demogorgon?

Oh Jesus, we're so screwed
if it's the Demogorgon.

-It's not the Demogorgon!
-An army of troglodytes…

I have a very clear memory of

season one, day one,
scene one, take one,

was the Dungeons & Dragons
scene in the basement.

That was the first thing
we'd ever shot.

And then when I saw
that it ended that way…

you know, I started crying.

Reading that last scene,
I was like, "Man, that's perfect."

A lone hero remains, Will the Wise,
Barovia's last and only hope.

It felt like we needed
to go full circle.

They needed to play
a final game of D&D

because they'd
been through so much

and we wanted
a return to the innocence

of that first season,
once they've finally been able

to put all of this evil behind them.

And… fireball!

We wanted some of the shots
to hearken back

to that original season.

And it was so cool to just watch
everything come full circle.

And so shooting it was
an incredibly moving experience.

It brought all of us to tears
at one point or another

on that last day.

I mean, that's why we love
the show is these characters

and seeing them safe
and happy and triumphant,

it's the most rewarding feeling after,
you know, a decade of doing this.

Well, it is true.

The comfort and happiness part.

But happiness can be found
in many places.

I think what really
was just so perfect

was the coda and the epilogue
was just beautiful.

And I feel like everyone's
been waiting so long to see

what is the aftermath
for all these characters?

I had Dustin have
an Eddie tribute tattoo of bats.

Gaten liked it. He just felt like
it was really great for his character.

There is a story
that he can never tell.

The story of the mage.

Mike has this alternate theory
about what happened to Eleven.

It's kind of up to interpretation,

but to Mike, he chooses
to believe that it's real.

Once the mage escaped,
the sister cast one final spell.

The mage you saw die was not real.

I kind of love that ending.

That there is just such
a bigger purpose to Kali's powers.

Everything has a purpose.
Everything's there for a reason.

I like to imagine that she's

in a beautiful land,
somewhere far away.

It's so beautiful.

It's about hope.

Jane lives on in like that version
for Mike, and that's enough.

Eleven sort of represents to us

the magic of childhood, right?
Something fantastical.

The elements of it
that feel almost supernatural,

magical, and wondrous.

That feeling is
encapsulated by Eleven.

So while they're leaving her behind,
ultimately at the end,

she's always going
to be a part of them,

and she's always going to be there.

That's really what we wanted
the ending to be about.

That's a good shot.

Rolling.

Thank you, cameras are set.

The last scene
we shot with our main actors

was the last scene
that they're in the show.

So, a lot of what
they're saying in those scenes

is exactly how those actors
are feeling in real life.

A lot of that was real.
It was very raw.

It was hard.
It was hard for everyone to let go.

And cut.

I think the most
profound gift from this show

has been these kids.

I was sort of taken aback
by just how grounded they are

and how just insanely talented
they are.

And… I'll get emotional,

but how well
they turned out, you know?

That's why I really wanted them

to really understand
how much they brought.

And how lucky

we all are.

And how lucky audiences are

to have gotten
to watch them grow up.

I'm so proud.

I mean, it's like family.

I mean, and everything that entails.

I've grown up with these people.

I love them.

I care about them deeply.

And that's what's
really special about this show,

is there was an encouragement to
really bring all that life to the work.

I think back to like how it all started.

I just remember it so clearly,

just kind of feeling
the energy in the room.

And I think nothing really changed.

Like that energy that I felt that day
is just kind of what the show is.

And just, I don't know,
this feeling of like safety and joy.

This is a forever sort of legacy.

And there's before,
and there's after.

And all of us now live in the after.

And not for one day
do I want any of us

to take that for granted

or forget what a gift that is.

Stranger Things is a classic
that will never die.

You know what I mean?

That story always will resonate
with different generations.

So it's not the end.
It's just a part of the journey.

For us, it really is about,

yes, we're moving on,
but we're never gonna let go.

And we can always go back
if we're ever feeling down.

If things are ever feeling hard,
we can go back

and we can find that feeling
again in our hearts.

And it's always gonna be there.