Millie Bobby Brown Had a 'Disastrous Audition' Before Landing Stranger Things

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playing Rue on Euphoria, it’s also hard to imagine anyone other than playing Eleven on *—*but that was almost the reality.In a new interview with , Millie got candid about her start in acting and recounted how a “disastrous audition,” which took place just before she filmed her self-tape for Stranger Things, discouraged her enough to almost end her career before it even took off.The 18-year-old actor told Allure that, when she was just 10, a “powerful casting director” brought her to tears when they told her she “wasn’t going to make it in the industry.” The reason?

She was “too mature.”“I always knew that I was mature and I couldn’t really help that,” MBB, who at the time thought maturity was “a good thing,” elaborated. “Being told that it wasn’t, that I wouldn’t make it in this industry, it was so hurtful.

I got really down about that.”However, Millie’s parents, who had trusted her talents enough to move their entire family from England to Los Angeles just two years prior, encouraged her to try her luck one last time. “My parents told me, ‘Just do this one last audition on tape and then you can go outside and play with your friends again.’ So I said, ‘Okay, yeah, I should do this one because it looks cool.’” That audition, of course, was for the Duffer Brothers.Just three months after the “disastrous” experience, MBB’s life got flipped turned upside down when she was officially cast as Eleven, and the rest is history.

Since its premiere in 2016, the series, which just finished airing its , has gone on to become . And while , which is speculated to premiere sometime in 2024, the Stranger Things universe is far from done.“There are still many more exciting stories to tell within the world of Stranger Things; new.