THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE

AS THE SENSATIONAL HIT SERIES THAT LAUNCHED HER CAREER COMES TO AN END, MILLIE BOBBY BROWN HAS A PLAN TO SUSTAIN THE MOMENTUMALL WHILE SAYING NO AS MUCH AS SHE NEEDS TO AND LIVING ON A FARM IN GEORGIA. WHY NOT? STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED

- SUZY EXPOSITO

MILLIE BOBBY BROWN was 11 when she began playing the icon known as Eleven.

By the time she shot her final scenes as her fierce, loyal, and telekinetic character on Stranger Things this past December, she was 20, newly married, and living on a farm in Georgia. Some days she bottle-fed a baby goat in her trailer.

Many days she brought her foster dogs to work, which the cast and crew lovingly welcomed.

There was also a lot of Wicked-"I'm a big musical girl," Brown says-which the show's creators recall a little less tenderly.

"She asked us to play 'Defying Gravity' while she was hovering midair in a harness so she could pretend to fly like Elphaba," says Matt Duffer, who created the show with his brother, Ross. "Not just because she loves the song, but because she knows it drives us a little crazy." But the bosses forgave her fast. "As soon as the camera rollsbarely a second before-that silliness vanishes and she just...transforms into Eleven."