Millie Bobby Brown shares her “resentment” towards sexist ‘Stranger Things’ “scrutiny”
Millie Bobby Brown has opened up about the tumultuous experience of becoming famous at the age of 12, when she was first catapulted into the big leagues thanks to the success of Stranger Things.
While appearing on a new episode of On Purpose with Jay Shetty, the now 22-year-old divulged the staggering level of “scrutiny and pressure” that she faced from the media during her time on the hit Netflix show.
“Women don’t win because we don’t get to win. We don’t get to just be in peace. It’s crazy scrutiny,” she began.
The Enola Holmes star added, “I grew up on a show with four boys. I’m not taking away their experience – they got their fair share of things – but what the girls got on that show, what felt my experience as well, was the scrutiny and pressure that gets put on you was insane.”
She added that she never once heard incessant media commentary on “any of my cast members, boys slash men, about what they’re wearing on the carpet and what they look like or what their hair looks like or what their makeup looks like or what they’re saying. Those weren’t the headlines.”
Instead, Brown felt that the media often praised the young men, while lashing out at the female stars of the show, which also included Maya Hawke and Sadie Sink.
Though Brown added quickly that the boys on the show were “amazing” and deserved their praise, she added that “I do, too.”
She went on, “My headline shouldn’t be tearing me down – and other young girls down. I get very annoyed about it because I just feel very protective over girls that are coming up into the industry.”
As such, Brown admitted to “holding a bit of resentment [because] I don’t feel I received the same treatment,” however, she was keen to move on from her grievances: “It’s not a pity party,” she added lightly.
Most recently, the actor starred alongside Henry Cavill, Louis Partridge, and Helena Bonham Carter as the titular character in Enola Holmes 3.
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