"If I wear high heels or some kind of dress to the awards ceremony, someone says, 'She looks 50.'" "Actually I'm 17 years old."
When the first season of Stranger Things aired in 2016, the popularity of "Little 11" Millie Bobby Brown was explosive — a superpowered girl with a head, no talking, a mysterious life, and a good and evil character, what cooler character than this?
Five years later, in the ongoing movie Godzilla vs. King Kong, Millie transforms into a brave girl with small smoky makeup and long hair:
In five years, the "little devil head" who once had tiger teeth suddenly entered puberty, and like her popularity, Millie's growth rate seemed to many people to be lightning fast.
"Looks like 50 years old", Millie said is not exaggerated, netizens are always harsh and even excessive evaluation of her appearance age, not only foreign netizens, but also domestic netizens (no responsibility to say hi netizens are not divided into countries):
"Since I was 10 years old, I've been watched by everyone and it looks like they were involved in the whole process of your growth, but they didn't accept that you grew up." "It feels like I have fifty million parents!"
In the first two or three years of popularity, under the influence of the role of "Little 11", people will think of the coolness and murder of Natalie Portman in "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", and will associate with the handsomeness of the popular neutral supermodel Agyness Deyn, which is firmly imprinted in the consciousness of many people.
The little 11 in Stranger Things is easily reminiscent of Matilda in This Killer Is Not Too Cold
The neutral Style Millie is also often said to be very much like Agyness Deyn
However the female eldest eighteen changed. In December 2017, Millie, who was not yet 14 years old, finally ushered in her first love affair - she got along with the oil pipe network singer Jacob Sartorius, and then began to show love...
The mentality of tens of millions of parents has collapsed - will the "daughter" not be able to recognize people? Some people feel that traffic influencers are not worthy of Millie, some people think why not fall in love with the green plum bamboo horse in the play, more people are resistant to the fact that Millie has begun to fall in love.
Fortunately, the days of such fear and fear were not long, and the two children broke up peacefully in less than a year. But when the girl first grew up, no matter how much netizens expected it, Millie could not go back to the era of the former tomboy.
Instead of choosing the path of bullying like Natalie Portman, she didn't become a cool Rockstar, but like so many young people known as "Generation Z", she embraced social media, showed herself, loved makeup, liked vlogs, was obsessed with the Kardashian family's reality show (and even proficient in Cardinal)...
This direction of growth is not in line with too many people's expectations, so whenever she pops out some slightly mature, sexy photos on Instagram, there will be a lot of "parental voices".
The most scorched battlefield, or red carpet photos and activity photos, millie, eager to grow up in the past two years tried a lot of styles of styling, some surprises, some stepping on the thunder, repeatedly suffered from the age attacks of netizens...
How do you see and evaluate Millie's red carpet looks over the past two years?
"I'm 17 and I'm learning how to be a woman."
Too many girls experience the most inferior stage of their lives during adolescence – when their self-perception is not clear enough, they will be particularly vulnerable to the eyes and evaluations of those around them, whether she is a star or an ordinary person. Even the female celebrities who have become a dressing model today do not all have a good starting point, and often meet a really suitable stylist (which is too important) and become more mature before they begin to become prominent.
Zendaya and Saoirse Ronan also had a number of failed red carpet looks when they were young, and it wasn't until they met the right stylists in the past two years that they made a leap in fashion
So why not be more tolerant and patient with girls like Millie? At the very least, in a more kind and acceptable way when expressing it.
But we are not worried that the "child star-like collapse" will happen to Millie - she is not the kind of "greenhouse princess" who grew up in flowers and applause, lost part of her hearing at birth, and then she simply could not hear the sound in one ear, she had to change schools after being bullied at school, her parents were ordinary people, and she moved from the UK to Los Angeles in order to realize her acting dreams... So Millie knew very well that she had no way out, and she had to be able to fight and resist.
She originally had long blonde hair, like many child stars, like a doll, but when she auditioned for "Stranger Things", when a director walked over her head with a pusher and made a 'nuisance' sound, even without any psychological preparation, she did not hesitate to accept the fact that she wanted to shave her head, which is difficult for many adults to do.
"The next day I got the role. My hair was long, but it was just hair. Later I was called 'Little Boy' by many people. ”
She was nominated for an Emmy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and not to mention a large salary and dividend. But Millie wasn't content to just star in a series, she quickly turned to the big screen and signed to Godzilla: King of the Monsters for a million dollars; by the time she starred in Godzilla vs. King Kong, the price was said to have risen to three million dollars.
By last year, Millie's salary had reached $7.5 million, jumping to the top. What's more, she not only starred in Miss Sherlock Holmes, but also served as a producer.
To be able to star in a top-level drama such as "Stranger Things", which is directly proportional to popularity, to participate in the top hollywood commercial blockbusters such as the "Godzilla" series, and to dominate women's films such as "Miss Sherlock Holmes", Millie's career layout is very clearly planned.
She has a more ambitious "The Kind of Girl I Became" to be released next year, also starring and producing by herself. Summed up in one word, steady.
Millie, whose career path is getting wider and wider, has also launched her own makeup and skin care brand for teenagers of her age, focusing on the concept of environmental protection, the price is not high, and part of the income is donated to the foundation. Although there are not a few celebrity influencers who devote themselves to beauty, Millie, who has found the right target group, has obviously made this smarter.
Millie's personal brand has more than 2 million followers on Instagram
She is also well aware of the pros and cons of social media – she needs social media as a star, but she also believes that "there's a lot of bullying and poisoning there", and after becoming a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Millie said: "I want to protect children from violence and exploitation, and I also want to be more active in fighting the negativity on social media – I've experienced – it's like a disease." ”
Millie, a girl who advocates "not being defeated by anything", may sound a little youthful and crazy, but what she has been doing makes us believe that she is indeed full of strength and brave enough.
Being an actor is not a beauty pageant, and there is no need to seek standards and perfection in appearance, just like most of us do. Millie is a minor, but also a young man with achievements and professionalism in her field, regardless of age or gender, she should be respected, she should be allowed to constantly try and break through, rather than becoming entangled and timid in the expectations and evaluations of others.
"I don't want to play a little girl anymore. Don't try to stop me, that's the most important thing. I just want to move forward. ”