Everyone’s favorite telekinetic teenager from Hawkins, Indiana, is ready to leave the world of demogorgons behind her.
“Stranger Things” star Millie Bobby Brown has revealed that she has mentally embraced the impending end of her star-making role as Eleven in the supernatural Netflix series.
“I think I’m ready. It’s been such a huge factor in part of my life, but it’s like graduating high school, it’s like senior year,” Brown told Women’s Wear Daily.
“Stranger Things” creators and showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer announced last year that the sci-fi drama will end with Season 5, which has halted its production amid the ongoing Hollywoodstrikes.
“You’re ready to go and blossom and flourish and you’re grateful for the time you’ve had, but it’s time to create your own message and live your own life,” Brown added.
So what else does the 19-year-old actor have going on at the moment?
She is preparing for the release of her debut novel, “Nineteen Steps,” a historic narrative based on her family history, in September.
The book is set in wartime Bethnal Green, an East London neighborhood, and focuses on 18-year-old Nellie Morris, an assistant at the mayor’s office who is struggling to find normalcy amid the ongoing conflict, according to the book’s publisher, HarperCollins.
In April, Brown announced that she was engaged to her longtime partner, Jake Bongiovi.
“I can say that the (wedding) planning is going — it’s so fun and it’s such an exciting time in my life,” Brown said.
Brown’s acceptance of the termination of “Stranger Things” echoes the sentiments of her co-star and onscreen adoptive father, David Harbour.
“I do love the show. And I do love the character. But I don’t want to be just that character. I don’t want to be just that guy,” the 48-year-old actor told Insider in late June. “(I)t’s tricky because you don’t want to s— on the people that love you for this thing that you did that you also love. But at the same time, you kind of want to leave the nest. … I don’t want people yelling ‘Hopper’ on the street every five minutes the rest of my life.”
