With the fifth and closing season of Stranger Issues within the bag, Millie Bobby Brown is bidding farewell to the function of a lifetime.
After the Netflix present’s manufacturing wrapped this week, the 2x Emmy nominee shared a video of her emotionally heartfelt goodbye to her fellow solid and crew, greater than eight years after the Duffer Brothers collection premiered.
“Isn’t commencement is meant to deliver aid, such as you’re glad to go away behind the lecturers and classmates? Not me,” mentioned Brown by means of tears. “I’m nowhere close to prepared to go away you guys. I really like every one in all you, and I’ll ceaselessly carry the reminiscences and bonds we’ve created collectively as a household. I really like you. Thanks.”
She shared the video with a collection of behind-the-scenes throwback images from her five-season run. “With love, El,” Brown wrote within the caption, a nod to her character Eleven.
Brown, who was 12 when the collection started, beforehand praised the present for giving her “the instruments and the assets to be a greater actor” however admitted she’s able to depart Stranger Issues.
“If you’re prepared, you’re like, ‘All proper, let’s do that. Let’s deal with this final senior 12 months. Let’s get out of right here,’” she defined to Glamour. “Stranger Issues takes up a variety of time to movie and it’s stopping me from creating tales that I’m obsessed with. So I’m able to say, ‘Thanks, and goodbye.’”
Noting that no person is dying, Brown added, “When it ends, I’m going to have the ability to nonetheless see these folks.”
Brown’s co-stars additionally gave some emotional farewells, with Will Byers actor Noah Schnapp sharing a number of the best classes he’s discovered on set.
“Two days in the past, I wrapped my closing scene as Will Byers, and I’m feeling very emotional,” he captioned his personal throwbacks. “As I shut this chapter of my life, I can’t assist however be ceaselessly grateful for the unimaginable people who I’ve met and helpful life/profession classes I discovered by means of this decade journey.”
Schnapp singled out every of his co-stars with reward, in addition to the Duffer Brothers and director Shawn Levy.
“Rising up I at all times felt like an outcast, uncertain of the place I slot in,” he continued. “Navigating life within the highlight whereas carrying this sense, by means of each awkward section and embarrassing second uncovered for the world to see, has positively been an uncommon expertise. However I’ve been honored to share it with my unimaginable co-stars, who perceive it in a approach that nobody else can.
“Stranger Issues was greater than a job; it was a lifelong dream. A dream made actuality due to the Duffers. Thanks for taking an opportunity on me after I was only a 10 12 months outdated child and entrusting me with one thing so necessary to you each. Collectively, this solid + crew has constructed one thing so very particular, and I couldn’t be any extra excited for the world to see the ultimate chapter. Stranger Issues is a by no means ending story for me – it’s in my coronary heart ceaselessly,” added Schnapp.
Finn Wolfhard, who performs Mike Wheeler, wrote, “We simply wrapped Stranger Issues Season 5. I’m nonetheless in shock. We shot it for a 12 months and I’ll miss all of my buddies and our characters terribly. Once I consider the present, I image this primary photograph. A bunch of goofy younger folks making one thing they suppose is cool however actually don’t have any clue what’s to return. I really feel like we’re nonetheless these folks and I’m fortunate to nonetheless stand beside them as we speak. I hope you’ll love this season as a lot as I do. See you all subsequent 12 months.”
Sadie Sink, who joined the solid in Season 2 as Max Mayfield, captioned her publish, “That’s a collection wrap on Stranger Issues. This present, character, and each individual concerned made me who I’m. It gave me probably the most wonderful childhood. It introduced me to my greatest buddies. Saying goodbye is so painful, however I go away with reminiscences and like to final a lifetime. I’m eternally grateful.”
On Friday, Netflix introduced that Stranger Issues wrapped manufacturing, sharing behind-the-scenes images from Season 5, which started filming in January. The ultimate season is ready to premiere in 2025.