Millie Bobby Brown disheartened after losing out on Game Of Thrones role ... before her big break on Stranger Things
Los Angeles: She became a household name after wowing audiences with her portrayal of Eleven on the hit Netflix series Stranger Things.
But Millie Bobby Brown recently revealed that the rejection she felt after losing out on a role she ‘really wanted’ on Game Of Thrones - prior to her big break - nearly put an end to her acting career.
“I was very disheartened by the rejection, which is something that I tell everyone,” she said.
“This industry is full of rejection 24/7,” explained the 16-yearold to The Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon.
She continued: “I feel like you do get a lot of noes before you get a yes. I was auditioning for commercials, for anything really.”
Though she could seemingly handle the rejection from smaller gigs, it was the ‘no’ Millie received from the casting director and producers of Game Of Thrones that really made her rethink her acting pursuits.
“I then auditioned for Game Of Thrones and I got a ‘no’ for that and that’s when I was like, ‘This is really difficult.’
“I guess I really wanted that role,” added Millie, though she never explicitly named which character she was so eager to play. Fresh off the Game Of Thrones
rejection, she landed an audition for an impending Netflix sciencefiction series titled Montauk.
“So one of my last goes [at acting] was this Netflix show called
Montauk. I auditioned and two months later they got back to us and said, ‘Hey we’d love to Skype
with you,’” she recalled.
Montauk, which later become
Stranger Things, “was definitely the one that kind of gave [her] that hope of doing [acting] all again”.