Millie Bobby Brown was just ten when she auditioned for the role of Jane ‘Eleven’ Ives on the Netflix hit Stranger things. Seven years later, however, her fans cannot accept the fact that she is not a little girl.
“I’m only 17, but at the end of the day I’m learning to be a woman. I’m learning to be a young woman,” she told MTV News in a video interview on Wednesday. “As a young girl, people watch you grow up, right? And they have almost become invested in your growth and your journey. But they are not willing to accept the fact that you are growing up. ‘
Brown noted that her fashion choices are often the most offensive to fans. “So I wear a crop top and people are like, ‘She’s 10.’ I’m like, ‘No … I’m 17. It’s something girls do,’ the Godzilla teen Kong star said. “Either I’m wearing high heels. Or I’m wearing an outfit for an awards show and they’re like, ‘She looks 50’. No, it’s because you’ve been watching me since I was 10. That’s why you think so. ‘
“I think that’s what I found quite difficult: the transition period. They do not accept it and I accepted it completely. You know, I’m ready. I’m wearing a high heel! ‘I’m not going to play those young girls anymore , and it’s like: I have 50 million people like my parents, ‘she said. “My parents are like,’ Yay! Thank God. You’re 17 ‘. Like: ‘Put on some high heels. Let’s go!’
In her latest film, Brown repeats her role as Madison Russell (she also plays the teenager in 2019s Godzilla: King of the Monsters).
It would seem that Brown often cannot win in the public eye. When she was 15, she was criticized on Instagram for posting photos of herself with blue eye makeup and curly hair, a look inspired by Jennifer Gray’s character in the film. Dirty dancing. “You are 15. Stop,” a commentator wrote.
That year, the actress in a Harper’s Bazaar interview that she is constantly struggling with comments about her appearance. “It’s always hard to dress for a red carpet event because a lot of people have opinions and unfortunately you say you will not listen to them, but you should actually do it,” she said. ‘For me, I sit there and think, I’m not going to listen to what they have to say, journalists or whoever wants to write badly about my inappropriate outfit. ”
During the MTV interview, Brown elaborated on life in the spotlight. “I struggled with anxiety and learned to deal with it,” she said. “I meditate, I journal a lot, I take a lot of time for myself.”
But Brown is committed to forging her own path forward. “I do not want anything that holds me back, which I think is the most important,” she said. “I want to develop.”
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