The actress, who was 11 when she started starring in the Netflix series, said goodbye to her character Eleven last Friday. She published a video showing her emotion.
Millie Bobby Brown said goodbye to Stranger Things. The actress burst into tears on the set of the series while reading a letter of thanks to the team as filming for the fifth season came to an end this Friday, December 20.
“We should feel good about receiving our diploma. We should be happy to leave our teachers and our classmates. Not me,” she said, crying in a video posted on Instagram. “I don’t want to leave you.”
“I love you all and I will always remember this shoot and the bonds we were able to create, as if we were a family. I love you and I thank you,” she added.
“Like the final year”
The actress, who was 11 years old during the filming of the first season in November 2015, shared in addition to the video several photos from her nine years on the set of Stranger Things.
Millie Bobby Brown, who also found success starring in Enola Holmes on Netflix, said she was “ready” last year to say goodbye to Stranger Things. “I think I’m ready,” she told the site Women’s Wear Daily.
“It’s like final year,” she added. “You're ready to soar, to grow. You're grateful for what you've been able to do and now it's time to have your own life and make your own path.”
Broadcast in 2025
Netflix has confirmed that the final season of Stranger Things would be broadcast in 2025. It will take place in the fall of 1987, four years after the events recounted in the first season.
Asked about season 5 in the podcast Podcrushed of actor Penn Badgley, Maya Hawke, who plays Robin Buckley in the series, confided last June that this season would be made up of eight “very long” episodes thought of as “eight films”.
Launched on Netflix in 2016, Stranger Things has become one of the most popular series on the platform. Its fourth season, released in 2022, generated 140 million views worldwide.
Other projects inspired by the world of Stranger Things have been announced: a prequel in the form of a play, entitled The First Shadowand a spin-off animated series was also ordered by Netflix.
