
I would come to set before my scenes and direct her through everything. It was really important for me to help her through that because I didn’t really have anyone helping me through who Eleven was going to be.

How did you work with Martie when she was shooting her stand-in sequences? It was a really interesting process - definitely once in a lifetime. For three days, I worked in this room and basically did every single scene that Martie had done, but just acted with my face to replicate all of her movements. I went to LA and we did this really cool process called the Lola machine. We got this incredible small child to play me, Martie Blair. Once we talked through it, it only made sense to have me play my younger self, and every time she sees her reflection, or recalls a memory, it’s her younger self. I had to really sit down with the Duffer Brothers and Shawn Levy to understand what specifically was happening, who was playing what and how that was going to work out. One of the most striking things about this season has been seeing the younger Eleven in contrast to you now. 1 of Season 4 - when young Eleven sends One (Jamie Campbell Bower) into the Upside Down, where he begins to transform into Vecna. “It was really nice.”īrown also discussed what it was like floating in the salt water tank Eleven uses to access her repressed childhood memories, why she implicitly trusts “Stranger Things” creators Matt and Ross Duffer and what she thinks really happened in the final scene of Vol. “I was like, ‘Let me take you through what I went through and we’ll figure it out together,'” she says.

As the 18-year-old Brown explained to Variety, she worked extensively with Blair on set for those scenes, to help her capture how Eleven would have moved and reacted.
