Drive around Atlanta, Georgia, long enough and the city starts to feel flat, crisscrossed with highways and personal injury lawyer billboards, home to Walmarts the size of football fields. This is, improbably, where Millie Bobby Brown – Stranger Things star, Netflix golden goose and self-made lifestyle millionaire – has chosen to base herself. “I’m so sorry,” Brown says as she strides into the coffee shop, one of a local hipster chain, where we were meant to meet 20 minutes ago. She was in dance rehearsals at a gargantuan film studio complex nearby, which was also home to the sprawling Stranger Things set for the last decade.
Brown is gleefully schtum about the project requiring the sweat-tastic routine: “I have something in the pipeline that I’m really excited about, which I’ve never done before – that’ll be next year!” In a Garage sports bra, black shorts and hair pulled back in a ponytail, she looks like any 21-year-old Pilates girlie fresh from a reformer class. At least, that’s until she reaches for a bottle of water from the barista and reveals the tiny tattoo on her wrist – the numbers “011” in a delicate font. That would be a reference to Eleven from Stranger Things – a telekinetic, shorn-headed adolescent locked in battle with the forces of evil, aided by a motley crew of gung-ho kids and world-weary adults – the character that propelled Brown from child actor to global megastar.
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