Millie Bobby Brown can't relate to people her own age
Millie Bobby Brown struggles to relate to people her own age because she grew up with "men over 40 years old" on the sets of her various projects.
Millie Bobby Brown struggles to relate to people her own age.
The 22-year-old actress thinks she missed out on "socialisation" as a teenager because she spent so much of her formative years on the set of Stranger Things, bonding with the crew.
She said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast: "Sometimes when fans come up to me, they'll be like 'Millie!' and I'll be like 'Aah!'
"I just don't know how to react sometimes to people my own age. I have a harder time. Because I grew up with primarily men on crews, let's change that."
The Enola Holes actress explained that many of the crew members she worked with were "men over 40 years old" so she wasn't really sure how to talk to younger people.
She continued: "And so I heard a lot of adult talk growing up, I didn't really talk about the things you're meant to talk about as a kid," the Damsel actress explained. "Because you hear 'Where's the grip? Let's grab a ladder,' you know? And so that's your whole conversation."
Millie - who made her professional acting debut in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland in 2013 - can talk "extensively" about "different lens changes and shots," but struggles to chat with people about everyday subjects such as favourite bars and restaurants.
However, her social life received a boost when she met now-husband Jake Bongiovi, who is very different.
She said: "The complete opposite [side] of me. You know, he went to boarding school and college so he is like a social butterfly. When I met him, I really tried to lean more into that. So, I'm in my social era."
Elsewhere in the interview, Millie - who adopted a baby girl last August - described 63-year-old actor Tom Cruise as a "dear friend" when she recalled flying his helicopter.
Asked if she knows Tom during an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Millie said: "He's a dear friend. He's a wonderful man and I'm very lucky to call him my friend.
"Tom does the craziest stuff. I think he's trying to get me to somehow fly a plane at some point.
"[I've actually] flown his helicopter before.
"I was like, 'This is the last time I ever fly any of his equipment."
Millie admitted it is a "thrilling experience" for her to do her own stunts in her movies and she hopes other actresses will be encouraged to do the same.
She said: "I really want young girls to think they can, you know? You'll always hear an older actor say, 'Don't do your own stunts,' and I get that.
"But back in the day, they might have been throwing you against a wall, and now, if you get a really great stunt coordinator and you learn how to land and you learn the whole technique of it, we as actors should know how to do certain things."
She joked: "I try to do 90% and the 10% is probably, you know, in my contract that I'm not allowed, even though I beg."
