No, Millie Bobby Brown doesn’t want Eleven to die in Stranger Things

The internet loves to take things out of context. Just ask Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven), who’s always seeing her jokes and sarcastic comments resurface as self-serious headlines. For instance, take the time she said that she wanted Eleven to get killed off in the upcoming fifth and final season. She’s joking…or is she?

Millie Bobby Brown shares a lot of opinions about the show, although not all of them should be taken as gospel. Like last year, when she told The Wrap that the show is too soft and should take a more Game of Thrones-style approach and have a “massacre”; she’s not exactly wrong, but Stranger Things isn’t that type of show. “Kill me off!” she said at the time. “They tried killing David [Harbour] off and they brought him back!”

As you might suspect, however, most of her comments are pretty sarcastic. In a recent interview, she backtracked a little. “I say all these things really just under my breath, and then people take them and print them. And I’m like, no, no, no – I said that as a joke, that I wanted her to get married and work at a Target. That was a joke,” she told Total Film. “But it’s maybe not a joke?”

She concluded with what we can only assume is another joke about how she’d handle the series finale: “I’d make it more of a musical. But, you know, they don’t entrust it in the hands of me, which they should [laughs].”

Come to think of it, “The Upside Down” is a decent name for a band.

Millie Bobby Brown is okay being replaced as Eleven

With Stranger Things is ending next season, fans are naturally discussing potential spinoff shows. Creators Matt and Ross Duffer are already developing a secret spinoff show, but Millie Bobby Brown doesn’t sound like she’s ready to return. In fact, she’d like to see someone else take on the mantle:

"I’m just so focused on Enola [Holmes 2]. Stranger Things – we saw it, we love it, we have big hearts. But let’s make more Enolas. Let’s put that on Netflix. But other than that, I’d love to see another bald-headed 10-year-old get given that opportunity. I would help her navigate it."

Netflix recently dropped the second trailer for Enola Holmes 2, with Millie Bobby Brown shining as the titular detective. Check it out:

Currently, it looks like the fifth and final season of Stranger Things will shoot next year, meaning that we can expect it to arrive sometime in 2024. In the meantime, you can catch Millie Bobby Brown in Enola Holmes 2 on November 4.

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