Millie Bobby Brown finally spills on Eleven's bittersweet fate in 'Stranger Things 5': 'Everything has...'
Millie Bobby Brown has finally addressed her character, Eleven's fate in the finale of 'Stranger Things'. The fifth season ended on an epic note with the Hawkins heroes finally defeating Vecna and moving on to a world that inched towards normalcy. As for Eleven, her character made the supreme sacrifice with her death, leaving both fans and characters shocked.
Speaking to Tudum, Brown weighed in on the finale and her character's arc. "I just think it’s incredibly important that it all ends for her, and the suffering and the pain end," she said. "As a young girl, I couldn’t find my inner voice, and I could relate to Eleven in that way,” Brown says. “I think this season she can find her voice and make a decision that’s far greater than any she’s ever made before."
That said, Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard) had another theory where Eleven was still alive and had made it. While sharing one last game of D&D with the Hawkins bunch, he says he believed that Kali (Linnea Berthelsen) could have cast one final illusion before Eleven’s death, and the latter could be in hiding in a faraway village where no one can find her. She’s safe and surrounded by waterfalls — just like she and Mike had imagined. "I kinda love that ending, that there is just such a bigger purpose to Kali’s powers," Brown added. "Everything has a purpose, and everything is there for a reason."
The Duffer Brothers had previously kept the ending more open."There was never a version of the story where Eleven was hanging out with the gang at the end. For our writers and us, we didn’t want to take her powers away. She represents magic in a lot of ways and the magic of childhood,” Ross Duffer remarked.
"For our characters to move on and for the story of Hawkins and the Upside Down to come to a close, Eleven had to go away. We thought it would be beautiful if our characters continued to believe in that happier ending, even if we didn’t give them a clear answer to whether that’s true or not. The fact that they’re believing in it, we just thought it was such a better way to end the story and a better way to represent the closure of this journey and their journey from children to adults."
'Stranger Things' is streaming on Netflix.
