Originally appeared on E! Online
Millie Bobby Brown doesn’t just play a detective onscreen.
The “Enola Holmes” star put her sleuthing skills to work ahead of the ongoing fifth and final season of “Stranger Things”, revealing how she uncovered the sci-fi series’ highly-anticipated conclusion before the rest of her castmates.
“I didn’t really know how I was going to react,” she said on the Dec. 7 episode of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”, “and then the night before the last table read, we didn’t know what was gonna happen — nobody knew. I actually did know.”
Joking that she likes to “blackmail the directors,” Brown — who announced she adopted a baby girl with husband Jake Bongiovi in August — revealed how she managed to gather the highly-classified intel.
“I snuck into the writers’ room and I saw this really big whiteboard with all of the endings on it,” she shared. “And I was like, ‘Ahh, so much to process!’”
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But when it came time to go over the script for the series finale, the 21-year-old admitted that the experience proved to take quite an emotional toll.
“We didn’t sit at a table,” she recalled. “We sat on couches, and we cried for basically two hours straight.”
Indeed, having spent nearly a decade working together, Brown and her costars — including Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Noah Schnapp and Caleb McLaughlin — have evolved significantly over the years both onscreen and off.
“I grew up on the show, I traveled the world with these guys,” McLaughlin told E! News in May. “I’m really humbled and grateful for the experience.”
And the 24-year-old intends to carry what he’s learned on set into his future career endeavors.
“I’ve changed, I grew, I’ve been molded, I’ve been influenced,” he continued. “Stranger Things has set the bar high for me and my creative look on a lot of things.”
Volume two of “Stranger Things” season five premieres on Netflix Christmas Day, followed by the series finale on New Year’s Eve.
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Gaten Matarazzo, who plays Dustin on the hit Netflix show “Stranger Things”, was introduced to a one-year-old boy who was named after him.
