“That is me principally defending myself in opposition to these Millie Bobby Brown accusations and explaining that there are lives behind it, and it is nothing to do with my sensitivity.”

Again in Could, the much-anticipated fourth season of Netflix hit Stranger Issues lastly reached our screens after being severely delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Followers have been delighted as Eleven and the gang returned for extra supernatural happenings of their hometown of Hawkins, Indiana.

The sequence has adopted the identical group of youngsters since Season 1, with Eleven, Mike, Lucas, Will, and Dustin being the OGs, and Sadie Sink becoming a member of as Max in Season 2.

Mike’s sister, Nancy Wheeler, her ex-boyfriend, Steve Harrington, Chief of Police Jim Hopper, and Will’s mother, Joyce Byers, are the opposite main characters to have starred within the present from the primary episode.

And, in a transfer that’s significantly stunning at the present time, each single one of many central characters has made it to the fourth season.

In a world the place TV exhibits are always making headlines for his or her cut-throat choices to kill off main actors in key roles on the drop of a hat, Stranger Issues has stored its killings to a minimal — regardless of always placing its leads in life-threatening conditions.

And whereas it is a determination that has been extensively welcomed by followers, one of many present’s breakout stars, Millie Bobby Brown, just lately dragged its creators, the Duffer Brothers, as she accused them of being too scared to kill anyone off.


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In truth, the British actor known as showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer “delicate Sallies” as she suggested them to take a leaf out of Recreation of Thrones’ e-book, which was infamous for its relentless character deaths.

Millie was simply 12 years previous when she was solid as Eleven in Stranger Issues, and he or she even volunteered her character to be killed off as she shared her gripe with the sequence in a current interview.

Throughout a dialog with the Wrap in Could, Millie and her costar Noah Schnapp — who performs Will — have been requested what they wish to occur in future episodes.

“You need Will to die,” Millie abruptly informed Noah, who was visibly confused as he replied: “No? To die?”

“Oh, you don’t?” Millie requested, to which Noah stated, “Oh, I imply, I suppose on the finish…” earlier than deciding: “No, I don’t need [him] to die.”

Millie then informed the interviewer, “The factor is, we’re all afraid of one in all us dying,” as Noah mused: “One in all us will die.”

“They should kill off some individuals, it’s too massive,” he joked, and Millie was fast to share her settlement as she added: “It’s manner too massive, final evening we couldn’t even take one group image as a result of there have been like 50 of us. I used to be like, ‘It’s essential begin killing individuals off.’”


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“The Duffer brothers are two delicate Sallies that do not wish to kill anybody off,” she went on. “We have to be Recreation of Thrones. We have to have the mindset of Recreation of Thrones.”

After saying that they need to “kill me off,” Millie referenced Jim Hopper’s brush with death in Season 3 as she quipped: “They tried killing David [Harbour, who plays Hopper] off they usually introduced him again. It is ridiculous.”

And the Duffer Brothers have now responded to Millie’s criticism, however fortunately for followers, they don’t appear too eager to take her recommendation on board.


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Talking on the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast, Matt stated: “What did Millie name us? She stated we have been ‘delicate Sallies’. She’s hilarious. Consider us, we have explored all choices within the writing room.”


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He went on to clarify the complexities that include killing off a serious character as he continued: “Simply as a whole hypothetical, in case you kill Mike, it is like… That is miserable… We aren’t Recreation of Thrones. That is Hawkins, it isn’t Westeros. The present turns into not Stranger Issues anymore, since you do need to deal with it realistically, proper?”

Matt then referenced the demise of minor character Barb early in Season 1, sharing: “So even when Barb dies, there’s two seasons price of grappling with that, so think about — is that one thing we’re occupied with exploring or not occupied with exploring?”

However the author went on to tease that extra deaths might be “on the desk” as “they’re headed in the direction of the top” of the present, earlier than jokingly concluding: “That is me principally defending myself in opposition to these Millie Bobby Brown accusations and explaining that there are lives behind it, and it is nothing to do with my sensitivity. So there you go, Millie.”


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Which is one thing that Millie is bound to be receptive to, as elsewhere in her interview with the Wrap she bolstered her religion within the Duffer Brothers’ work.

She defined on the time: “I belief the Duffer Brothers and their artistic course of, and what they’ve seen for Eleven has at all times been superb and one thing I’ve at all times supported.”

In the meantime, Matt just lately revealed that there have been initially extra deaths within the present, with Dimitri “Enzo” Antonov set to satisfy his maker in an authentic script.

He informed Collider: “When it comes to who makes it, who lives or dies. I believe there was a model the place Dimitri, AKA Enzo, did not make it. Then he ended up making it. However that is [the most] radical of a departure from the unique thought versus what we ended up with.”

The revelation got here amid affirmation that the following season of Stranger Issues would be the final, and the Duffer Brothers have revealed that they already know what the ending goes to be.

“We all know what the ending is,” they informed SFX. “It’s conceivable that it modifications, however I believe it is unlikely as a result of it is a kind of endings that simply feels, and has at all times felt, proper. And it additionally feels form of inevitable. Then whenever you provide you with it, you are like, ‘oh yeah, properly, that’s completely what it must be.'”

Filming for the fifth and last season of the present is but to start, however Matt and Ross have promised followers that they received’t want to attend so long as they did for Season 4, telling Variety: “The hole ought to be fairly a bit shorter this time, as a consequence of the truth that we have already got an preliminary define, and we will’t think about there will likely be one other six-month compelled hiatus.”


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And whereas we wait with bated breath for the grand finale, we will solely hope that Millie doesn’t get her want and that the entire residents of Hawkins get their fortunately ever after…

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