When 12-year-old Millie Bobby Brown was offered the part of Eleven in Stranger Things, she didn't know taking it would mean shaving off her long brown hair. 'They [the show's creators, the Duffer Brothers] were very clever,' Brown told Aaron Paul for ELLE.com. 'I got the call back and then I did a Skype meeting and there was nothing at all about head shaving! And then we flew over to L.A., and they were like, "Are you ready?" And I was like, "For what?" And I was next to Finn [Wolfhard, who plays Mike Wheeler], and Ross Duffer comes up to me and puts his hand out and goes, "Bzzzzzzzzz." And my mom's like, "No! That's not happening." And I was like, "Mom. You need to chill out; it's gonna grow back." My mom was against it. And me and my dad were like, "Come on. It's fine!"'
Yesterday, Brown shared footage of that dramatic haircut on her Twitter, set to Beyoncé's Pretty Hurts. Her reaction at the end says it all:
And just like that, Eleven was born:
