Millie Bobby Brown is opening up about the one disadvantage she suffered after spending her entire childhood on the “Stranger Things” set.
The Enola Holmes star, who played the role of Jane Hopper in all five seasons of Stranger Things, revealed on Monday’s episode of the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast that she never learned to socialize with people of her age group because she never got the chance to attend “public school” and was surrounded by mostly male crew on the set.
While admitting this lack of social skill affects her, Millie said, “Sometimes, when fans come up to me, they’ll be like: ‘Millie!’ And I’ll be like, ‘Ahh!’ And it’s not because I’ve … It’s just I don’t know how to react sometimes to people my own age. I have a harder time.”
She explained, “I grew up with primarily men on crews — let’s change that — men over 40 years old. So I heard a lot of adult talk growing up, and didn’t really talk about the things you’re meant to talk about as a kid.
“You hear, ‘Where’s the grip? Let’s grab a ladder,’ you know, that’s your whole conversation.”
“So,” Millie added, “I could talk to that person extensively for hours about different lens changes and shots, but I can’t talk to you about, ‘Oh my god, what bars do you like around this area?!’ I’m like, ‘I don’t know.’ So I do lack a little bit of that.”
In contrast, her husband, Jake Bongiovi, went to “boarding school and college,” and she called him “a social butterfly.”
“When I met him, I really tried to lean in more to that. So I’m in my social era,” Millie shared.
Even her socials are being handled by her managers, Millie shared.
“I couldn’t do it anymore,” Millie confessed. “So I needed to hire someone, for my mental health, to take care of it for me.”
But Millie clarified that this does not mean she does not want to connect with her fans.
She added, “I still want to feel connected to my fans … I don’t want to see what people have to say about it because I don’t care.”
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