Millie Bobby Brown reveals Stranger Things left cast in tears

Season three didn't end as she expected

Millie Bobby Brown says the end of the third season of Stranger Things left the cast in tears as they taped the emotional season finale.

The actor told Elle that she didn’t expect the Byers family to move away from Hawkins, Indiana, at the end of the season.

At that time, her character Eleven must move with them since her adoptive father Jim Hopper has been left for dead after a final confrontation against Russian operatives.

Eleven thus follows Joyce Byers (Wynona Ryder), as well as her sons Will and Jonathan Byers (Noah Schnapp and Charlie Heaton) to a new destination. An emotional sequence shows Eleven and the Byers packing their belongings as the group exchange a tearful goodbye.

“I was pissed!” Brown told Elle of the moment. “I read the script and I was like, ‘What, how is this even possible? Why are they moving away?’ They were like ‘Didn’t you read episode three?’ And I was like, ‘Oh yeah.’ Because Joyce said she wanted to move away from Hawkins. I don’t know, I just felt really against it.”

Brown explained that filming the end of season three caused the cast to realise that they might one day have to say goodbye in real life, which brought them to tears.

“When we were filming it, all of us kids said to each other, ‘So how are we all going to cry?’ Because we don’t really cry in front of each other very often. I usually am the one who’s crying in every single scene and the kids have to deal with me listening to [sad] music and they’re like, ‘Oh God,’” she said.

“I thought, are we all going to go off and listen to music? And then one of the kids was like, ‘Imagine if we have to do this for real one day.’ And we were like, ‘What do you mean?’ And they were like, ‘What if, when Stranger Things is over, we’ll all have to say goodbye to each other and like this is it.’

“And we all started crying and then they rolled camera and said action. And that was it. We all started saying goodbye to each other. We felt too real.”

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