{"id":2233911,"date":"2026-01-14T02:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2233911"},"modified":"2026-01-14T02:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:37:06","slug":"stranger-things-creepy-mr-whatsit-was-inspired-by-a-surprising-childrens-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/stranger-things-creepy-mr-whatsit-was-inspired-by-a-surprising-childrens-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things&#8217; Creepy Mr. Whatsit Was Inspired By A Surprising Children&#8217;s Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">&#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4574334\/\">Stranger Things<\/a>&#8221; wears its influences on its sleeves, and they don&#8217;t always stem from horror and sci-fi. Case in point \u2014 Mr Whatsit (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2570429\/\">Jamie Campbell Bower<\/a>), Henry Creel&#8217;s smiling, child-abducting alter-ego in &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4574334\/\">Stranger Things<\/a>&#8221; Season 5, was influenced by the titular host of classic kids&#8217; show &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0062588\/\">Mister Rogers&#8217; Neighborhood<\/a>,&#8221; with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6796434\/\">Bower<\/a> studying the series for tips on how to play the type of person young people would trust.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I spent time watching <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0062588\/\">Mr Rogers<\/a>, old things like that, movies like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0050842\/\">The Pied Piper Of Hamelin<\/a> from the &#8217;50s,&#8221; the actor told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0226775\/\">SFX<\/a>. &#8220;I spent a long time thinking about that and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Stranger Things&#8221; wears its influences on its sleeves, and they don&#8217;t always stem from horror and sci-fi. 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