As Millie Bobby Brown says goodbye to Stranger Things, she’s come a long way from the 12-year-old who broke out on Season 1 of the Netflix show in 2016.
The 2x Emmy nominee snapped back at a red carpet photographer who apparently told her to smile as she attended the London premiere of the fifth and final season on Thursday at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square.
“Smile? You smile!” said Brown in a viral clip before marching off down the carpet.
In March, Brown opened up about growing up “under public scrutiny,” calling out reporters who have previously gone after her looks. “This isn’t journalism. This is bullying,” she said in a video at the time.
“The fact that adult writers are spending their time dissecting my face, my body, my choices is disturbing,” added Brown in part. “Disillusioned people can’t handle seeing a girl become a woman, on her terms, not their own. I refuse to apologize for growing up.”
Brown stars in Stranger Things as the psychic-powered Eleven, who escapes Hawkins National Laboratory in Season 1, where she was subject to experiments with the Upside Down.
Season 5 continues in the fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, with the characters united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding. As the anniversary of Will’s disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread. The final battle is looming — and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they’ve faced before. To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone — the full party — standing together, one last time.
The highly anticipated fifth and final season will release on Netflix across three premiere dates with Volume 1 on November 26 (four episodes), Volume 2 on Christmas (three episodes), and The Finale on New Year’s Eve. Each volume releases at 5 PM PT.
