Millie Bobby Brown was rejected for a role on Game of Thrones

Millie Bobby Brown — Eleven on Stranger Things — once auditioned for a role on Game of Thrones, but which one? We take our best guess.

Netflix is officially back to work on Stranger Things, as it revealed in a mysterious tweet the other day. That means more inter-dimensional conspiracies, more monsters from beyond the veil of reality, and more Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) blowing them all apart.

We probably won’t see the fourth season of the hit horror drama/’80s pastiche for a while, but it’s good to know that things are moving again. In the meantime, Brown went on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to share her excitement, and revealed that she came close to being in a different iconic fantasy show.

According to Brown, before she landed the role of Eleven on Stranger Things, she auditioned for Game of Thrones, but even though she “really wanted” the part, she didn’t make the cut. At that point, she was experiencing so much rejection that she considered acting. “I got a no for that and then that’s when I was like, ‘Oh, this is really difficult,'” she said.

Of course, then she auditioned for the role of Eleven on Stranger Things, got it, and the rest is history. But it would have been interesting to see her on Game of Thrones.

But what role was she auditioning for? We don’t know for certain, but I have a pretty good idea, and you can tell me if I’m wide of the mark.

So the first season of Stranger Things aired in 2016, the same year that HBO aired the sixth season of Game of Thrones. That season introduced us to a little firecracker known as Lyanna Mormont, the Lady of Bear Island.

That role ended up being played by English actress Bella Ramsey, and I would bet good money this was the part that Brown — who is also English, although she uses an American accent on Stranger Things — was up for. The timing lines up and the actors are about the same age, with Ramsey only being a handful of months older than Brown.

Plus, there just aren’t a lot of other roles Brown could have been up for. She might have made a good Arya Stark, but Brown was all of 5 or 6 years old when they were casting for that part back in the late 2000s, so it wouldn’t have fit.

You can see Brown as the title character right now in Netflix’s Enola Holmes. As for the next season of Stranger Things, expect it sometime next year.

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