Millie Bobby Brown breaks down reading ‘Stranger Things’ farewell letter
Millie Bobby Brown has shared an emotional farewell letter to Stranger Things.
Netflix officially announced the end of filming on the sci-fi show on Friday (December 20), sharing a host of photos from the set alongside the caption: “THAT’S A WRAP ON STRANGER THINGS. See you in 2025.”
Now, Brown has shared her own heartfelt goodbye to the show she’s worked on for over eight years.
In a video shared to Instagram, the actress tearfully read a speech from her phone, saying: “Isn’t graduation supposed to bring relief, like you’re glad to leave behind the teachers and classmates? Not me.
“I am nowhere near ready to leave you guys,” she added. “I love each and every one of you, and I’ll forever carry the memories and bonds we’ve created together as a family. I love you. Thank you.”
The video came alongside a collection of behind-the-scenes photos from her time filming the show. “With love, El,” she wrote in the caption, referencing her character Eleven.
Brown, who was 12 when the series began, previously admitted she’s ready to move on to new projects after Stranger Things wraps. “When you’re ready, you’re like, ‘All right, let’s do this. Let’s tackle this last senior year. Let’s get out of here,’” she told Glamour.
“Stranger Things takes up a lot of time to film and it’s preventing me from creating stories that I’m passionate about. So I’m ready to say, ‘Thank you, and goodbye.’”
Finn Wolfhard, who played Mike Wheeler throughout the series, also shared his own post alongside one of the first photos from the show.
He wrote: “We just wrapped Stranger things Season 5. I’m still in shock. We shot it for a year and I’ll miss all of my friends and our characters terribly. When I think of the show, I picture this first photo. A bunch of goofy young people making something they think is cool but really have no clue what’s to come. I feel like we’re still those people and I’m lucky to still stand beside them today. I hope you’ll love this season as much as I do. See you all next year.”
It comes days after the cast celebrated their own wrap party last weekend (December 14) before shooting the final scenes.
Long-term cast members including Wolfhard, Gaten Mazzarro, Caleb McLaughlin, Joe Keery, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton and Maya Hawke were all present, along with Amybeth McNulty, who had a bit-part role in season four. Her character, Vickie, is thought to be more prominent this time around.
Fans did notice that Brown was seemingly absent from the festivities, with one account on X/Twitter claiming that she was in New York at the time. The actress married Jake Bongiovi, the son of Jon Bon Jovi, in May 2024 and it was reported that she was spending time with his family over the weekend.
Meanwhile, Netflix revealed the episode titles for season five last month: The Crawl, The Vanishing Of, The Turnbow Trap, Sorcerer, Shock Jock, Escape From Camazotz, The Bridge and The Rightside Up.
While Netflix and Stranger Things creators the Duffer Brothers have largely kept their cards close to their chest in the lead-up to season five’s release, we also know that the final season will be set in the autumn of 1987, a jump of about a year and a half from the previous season.
Matt Duffer told NME in 2022 that the fifth season will feel different from the others straight from the off. He explained: “Typically in the previous seasons, everything wraps up in a nice bow. Four and five are really [connected] together.
“[With five], there’ll be no wind-up time – like even this season, you get to experience the kids and what they’re going through in high school before things start to escalate. Then it gets crazier and crazier and crazier – that’s typically the trajectory. Five, you’re just going to be right in the middle of it so it’s going to feel very, very different.”
And, while this might be the final season of the main show, the Duffer Brothers have discussed plans for a spin-off. They told Variety in June 2022: “We do have an idea for a spin-off that we’re super excited about… but we haven’t told anyone the idea yet, much less written it.
“We think everyone – including Netflix – will be surprised when they hear the concept, because it’s very, very different. But somehow Finn Wolfhard – who is one crazy smart kid – correctly guessed what it was going to be about. But aside from Finn, no one else knows!”
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Laura Molloy
NME
