Millie Bobby Brown is having her hair done. She might have burst on the scene as the shaven-headed Eleven in Netflix’s flagship show Stranger Things, but right now she’s sitting in a chair while two women pluck and tug at the long blonde locks visible through many tentacles of twisted foil. The women are extremely patient, neither uttering a word of complaint as Brown twists this way and that in excitement as she talks, a permanent grin fixed to her face.
“I’m frying my hair, and then I’m going to shave it all off,” she cries, then immediately looks worried, her mouth twisting into an ‘O’ of consternation. Brown, a star at the age of 12 whose fame has only escalated in the six years since, has learned the hard way that journalists hang on her every word. Such quick-fire jesting is sometimes recorded as statements of fact. “I’m just kidding! Don’t print that!” she bellows. “I’m just going blonde because I’m having a Britney moment where I want to go blonde.” That, too, is a quip. It’s actually for her next role. “I’m doing another Netflix project. They’re giving me another opportunity. I absolutely love them. They’re so nice to me.”
A Netflix opportunity is why is today talking to Brown. 2 is landing in early November, with the bright, playful, energetically plucky kid sister of super-sleuth Sherlock now a fully-fledged detective running her own business. Enola discovered that a gift for sleuthing runs in the family in 2020’s , when her mother, Eudoria Holmes (Helena Bonham Carter), went missing; in leaving home to search for her, our teen ’tec crossed paths with young Viscount Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge), on the run from a monstrous future. Enola solved both cases, and we now find her ready to be a detective for
