Millie Bobby Brown finally opens up about Eleven’s fate at the end of Stranger Things
She knows! The young actress looks back on the fate reserved for her character in the last episode of the Netflix series. And she admits in passing that she went through a period of depression when the portal closed for good.
Since the broadcast of the finale of Stranger Things, a question has obsessed fans: is Eleven really dead?
She knows… but Millie Bobby Brown isn’t allowed to say it!
The actress was asked about her character’s fate during a taping of the Happy Sad Confused podcast. A question she has already prepared herself to answer… or rather not to answer.
“The Duffer Brothers messaged me after the finale aired saying, ‘Don’t tell anyone.’ We made a sort of secret pact…”
So there would be an answer, but shared by only three people:
“No one else knows. It’s just the three of us. And what they do with this information, if the Duffers ever want to reveal everything, will be up to them.”
The fans’ reactions greatly amused the actress, who discovered them alongside her husband, Jake Bongiovi.
“Jake was like, ‘Wow, there’s really mixed opinions.’ Except that at the same time, all my friends in the casting were saying that I was dead!”, she says, laughing. ‘First of all, that’s very rude of them! There must be something behind that. Are you all planning something or something? You want me dead, right?’ And I answered them: ‘Believe it! A little hope, let’s see!”
And when asked one last time if she thinks Eleven is still alive, her answer is unambiguous:
“Everyone asks me now: ‘Do you believe it?’ And of course I believe it. I have to believe it, honestly… Otherwise, I’ll fall back into my January depression.”
An allusion to the particularly difficult period she went through after the end of Stranger Things:
“I went through a slight… slight depression. It was very difficult for me. I didn’t expect to feel this way after the end of the series. I’m a very happy person naturally…” But after ten years of growing up with her playmates, Millie Bobby Brown felt the need to reconnect with them and ensure that their bond would survive the series:
“I think they thought I was crazy. I asked them: ‘We’re still friends, right? You’re not going to stop talking to me?’
The actress even went so far as to apologize to her film colleagues.
“I told them, ‘I’m sorry if I’ve ever hurt you. It’s been ten years and I really want to stay friends. You’re like my brothers and sisters.’
She remembers then breaking down emotionally.
“I was on a beach, it was beautiful, and I started crying. It was a very difficult time for me. No one will ever understand that. I started the show when I was 10; that character was me, and those people were more a part of my life than my own family. I saw them more often than I went home for dinner with my people. Saying goodbye to all that after ten years was a very, very emotional experience, and I’m going to miss Eleven more than anything.”
