You can’t audition and then give up,’” she recalls, her accent flipping back and forth between British and American. And if you commit to it, you have to commit to it. “My parents were like, ‘Well, it is a job. She remembers singing the unlikely holiday tune “Grown-Up Christmas List” in a show, alongside much older students (she was the youngest one onstage), and instantly realized how happy she was while performing. The craft of acting found its way into her heart by chance. The family lived in Spain for the first four years of her life and relocated to England for the next four years, before moving to Orlando. Millie, who now splits her time between London and Atlanta, was born in Spain to British parents, Kelly and Robert Brown. “You know more than Jake knows about me.” ”We’ve covered everything,” she agrees, as we get up from the table. By the end of our duo of conversations, Millie seems to have opened up about everything, including such mundane details as her dislike of men carrying umbrellas and her current TV binge, Love Island. Over the course of three hours, the actor reveals herself in a way that requires both a level of trust and an obvious interest in offering fans a glimpse behind the curtain. From the outset, she confirms she wants our interview to be a “super-open conversation,” and she lives up to that declaration. Despite being the star of Stranger Things, one of the biggest TV shows in the world, and having more than 55 million Instagram followers, Millie seems amiable, open, and immediately likable. I’m describing Millie’s outfit not because what she’s wearing actually matters, but because it affirms the easygoing way she presents herself. “If they have a dress code, I’m not going,” she says of her style choice, clearly unaware that Wentworth Club, which looks like a miniature version of Windsor Castle, does, in fact, have a dress code. The first, three days earlier, was over Zoom due to a COVID case on the set of Damsel, a Netflix film she’s starring in and producing via PCMA Productions, the company she launched with her family a few years back. This is the second time Millie and I have spoken.
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