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Topics: Millie Bobby Brown, Hollywood, Film and TV
Callum Jones
Topics: Millie Bobby Brown, Hollywood, Film and TV
Millie Bobby Brown is one of the most loved actors in Hollywood, but things could have been so different if she'd listened to one director.
At 20 years old, Bobby Brown already has an impressive resume, with Stranger Things undoubtedly being her biggest highlight.
The actor may not have reached the heights she has though, after a certain few words nearly made her quit acting when she was just ten.
In a 2022 interview with Allure Magazine, Bobby Brown admitted to struggling with self-identity growing up, but she quickly realized she wanted to be an actor.
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"I enjoyed being different people because I always struggled with self-identity and knowing who I was.
"Even as a young person, I always felt like I didn’t quite belong in every room I was in. I also struggle with loneliness a bit.
"I always felt quite alone in a crowded room, like I was just one of a kind, like nobody ever really understood me. So I liked [playing] characters that people understood [and] people could relate to because I felt like no one could relate to Millie."
But the road to becoming a Hollywood actor was a bumpy one for the star, with a pivotal moment at the age of ten leading to the actor considering ditching her dream altogether.
During an audition, Bobby Brown was told by a casting director how she would never make it in the industry.
She recalled: "I always knew that I was mature and I couldn’t really help that. Going back to what I said earlier about being kind of very lonely in who I was and feeling like no one was quite like me in school and no one was as mature as I was, [hearing that] was really hard because I thought [maturity] was a good thing.
"And then being told that it wasn’t, that I wouldn’t make it in this industry, it was so hurtful. I got really down about that."
And how wrong that director was as Bobby Brown has since gone on to appear in a ton of successful projects.
However, the incident wasn't the only time that led to Bobby Brown considering throwing in the towel.
The doubt occurred when the actor was not cast for a part in one of Game of Thrones' later seasons.
She recalled: “I think I was just very disheartened by the rejection which is something that I tell everyone, is like, ‘this industry is such full of rejection 24/7'.
“You get no's – a lot of no's – before you get a yes."