During an appearance on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’, the ‘Enola Holmes’ star confesses that she was close to quitting acting before she landed a role on ‘Stranger Things’.
- Oct 5, 2020
AceShowbiz – Millie Bobby Brown considered giving up on acting after losing out on a role on “Game of Thrones“.
During her appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon“, the “Enola Holmes” actress, 16, recalled her early rejection, admitting after she didn’t get a role on the HBO show she contemplated a career change.
Before scooping her part on “Stranger Things“, Millie said she became “very disheartened” by the acting industry, which she feels is “just full of rejection 24/7.”
“I feel like you do get a lot of noes before you get a yes,” the teenager shared, adding that she was auditioning for “anything really” at the time.
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According to the star, she “really wanted” the “Game of Thrones” role and was particularly upset when she didn’t get it.
“I got a no for that and then that’s when I was like, ‘Oh, this is really difficult,’ ” Millie shared.
However, after almost quitting acting, she went on an audition for a “Netflix show called ‘Montauk’ ” – which later became “Stranger Things”.
“I auditioned and two months later they got back to us and said, ‘Hey we’d love to Skype with you’, and I Skyped with them, and the rest is history,” she smiled. ” ‘Montauk’ was definitely the one that kind of gave me that hope of doing it all again.”
Millie rose to prominence after starring as Eleven on Netflix’s popular sci-fi horror series “Stranger Things” since 2016. At age 13, she became one youngest nominees in Emmy history after receiving a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2017 for her role on the show.
Source: Television - aceshowbiz.com
