Millie Bobbie Brown does the lie detector interview with Vanity Fair

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-Thinks she does a good American accent. Judges other British Actor’s for their American accents.

-She thinks more characters should die on Stranger Things.

-thinks co star Finn is a lousy kisser. Doesn’t think he’s improved over the years.

-She no longer thinks the world is flat.

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[winegums]

Interviews with her co-stars? Links, please. Did they express any specific concerns about her or was regular - and warranted - concern for her/the kids as a child growing up in the public eye being wilfully interpreted as a sign that the costars were saying MBB was going to be, in ontd parlance, a trainwreck?

Because ontd has been shitting on this child since she was 13, well before the Drake thing, for various sins including being loud and extroverted, talking about herself in interviews where she's specifically asked to do so, having a salary that's higher than her boy costars, or any acknowledgement at all that she's the breakout star of the show - and all the digs are ostensibly ok because "her stage parents". So forgive me if I don't trust the opinions of a comm that is ostensibly supportive of women and girls but thinks it was ok to leave comments saying this one was "sexualising herself". At 15.

It's shades of Britney all over again, like we learned nothing in the years since 2007 other than how to couch nasty comments about a teenage girl beneath the accepted veneer of ~concern.

[bttrsondaughter]

it was David Harbour talking about how he worried about her (https://pagesix.com/2021/08/02/david-harbour-has-a-real-worry-about-millie-bobby-brown/amp/) and then one with Charles Dance with The Telegraph or another UK paper from around the time that Godzilla movie came out where he mentioned that her parents were never on set and instead her brother was her chaperone. in it he also wondered aloud about how being treated like an adult on set would effect her. I can’t find a link for that one but that stuck with me all these years.

I’m not saying people were right in taking things to the most extreme conclusion, I’m just saying that worries about her parents behavior weren’t unwarranted and weren’t limited to just one vague article.

[winegums]

The linked interview and David's concern about Millie being treated like an adult on set seem like warranted but still general concerns over child star fame given he was the one who spent the most time with her, which he didn't with the other kids.

The actually iffy part was the one about her parents never being around and delegating chaperone duties to her brother, which was legal given I think he's much older than Millie so properly an adult? but like....what was preventing them being there for their minor child who was literally supporting the family?? But then I've also read comments criticising her dad for accompanying her on photoshoots and wanting outfit approval (to prevent her being put in anything too revealing/uncomfortable) like...pick a side, dude (not you specifically, just the general 'you'). I do think her parents made some questionable decisions and I will judge anyone who turns a child into the family breadwinner, but I'm not here for that being used to shit on her by way of concern trolling.