‘Stranger Things’ Star Looks Totally Different With Long Hair
Millie Bobby Brown is killing it right now on the Netflix original series Stranger Things as the creepy, mysterious character Eleven.
But before filming the role, the 12-year-old star looked totally unrecognizable from her shaven appearance on the series, and her parents were not happy about her new look.
“I had very long hair and I cut it all off for the part,” she told Vulture. “I read the script and I was so happy with my character and I thought, ‘This is how it’s gotta be.’ My mom and my grandpa were like, ‘No, you can’t do that.’
“It took me 12 years — well, 11 years — to grow something. [My hair] wasn’t thick, but it was long. And then they shaved it all off and it was very hard for my parents. But I convinced them. I was like, ‘Dude, it grows back. It’s fine.’”
Brown, who rose to fame with parts on Grey’s Anatomy, Modern Family, and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (she played the young Alice!), stars alongside Winona Ryder in the eerie new sci-fi series.
On the show, Brown plays a telekinetic young girl who helps a group of kids find their friend, who has mysteriously disappeared.
Ryder plays the missing boy’s mother. The series, which has been compared to ’70s and ’80s sci-fi classics like Alien(s) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, has been a massive hit for the Netflix streaming service.
All eight episodes of Stranger Things are now streaming on Netflix.
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