MBB Had a “Disastrous Audition” Before Landing “Stranger Things”

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MBB Had a “Disastrous Audition” Before Landing “Stranger Things”
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Millie was only 10 years old when she was told she “wasn’t going to make it in the industry.”

The 18-year-old actor toldthat, when she was just 10, a “powerful casting director” brought her to tears when they told her she “wasn’t going to make it in the industry.” The reason? She was “too mature.”

“I always knew that I was mature and I couldn’t really help that,” MBB, who at the time thought maturity was “a good thing,” elaborated. “Being told that it wasn’t, that I wouldn’t make it in this industry, it was so hurtful. I got really down about that.” However, Millie’s parents, who had trusted her talents enough to move their entire family from England to Los Angeles just two years prior, encouraged her to try her luck one last time. “My parents told me, ‘Just do this one last audition on tape and then you can go outside and play with your friends again.’ So I said, ‘Okay, yeah, I should do this one because it looks cool.’” That audition, of course, was for the Duffer Brothers.

Just three months after the “disastrous” experience, MBB’s life got flipped turned upside down when she was officially cast as Eleven, and the rest is history. Since its premiere in 2016, the series,

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