- Brown has starred in Netflix hits like Stranger Things and Enola Holmes
- She’s still on her family plan
- Her latest role is in The Electric State
Millie Bobby Brown’s made plenty of money from Netflix, but she isn’t giving them much of it back for her own account.
Brown still uses the streamer, but instead, she’s using it through her parent’s account.
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The topic came up when she went on the Capital Evening Show to promote her new film The Electric State. Host Jimmy Hill mentioned that One Day star Leo Woodall also doesn’t have his own Netflix account.
“You’ve done so many great Netflix projects over the years: Stranger Things, Enola Holmes, Damsel, and now The Electric State, of course, which we are talking about,” said Hill. “But my question to you is, Millie, do you get a free Netflix account as part of this, or do you have to pay? Because I was chatting to Leo Woodall the other week – do you know the actor Leo Woodall? He said he’s still using his mum’s account.”
“Yeah, do you know what? I’m like that too,” replied Brown. “I’m still using my parent’s account.”
“I’m still using my parent’s account. I kind of refuse to pay for the subscription, because my parents pay and I’m still a child in my eyes, and in their eyes. So yeah, I’m part of the family deal.”
But does she get to see herself Stranger Things early?
Added to that, Brown recently revealed that she doesn’t get to see Stranger Things early just because she stars in it.
“They’d never do that! We haven’t done that for 10 years. I don’t think they’re going to start on the last season,” she told Variety.
When asked how she sees each season of the show, she said she “sees it when it comes out, just like everyone else does”.
What happens in The Electric State?
The movie is a loose adaptation of the Simon Stålenhag dystopian science fiction graphic novel of the same name, released in 2018.
Set in a retro-futuristic 1990s, the story follows a teenage orphan on a journey to the west coast of the United States. She is searching for her long-lost brother, accompanied by a robot.
However, the reviews so far have generally not been the most positive. Critics have said that the film has ended up becoming a formulaic big-budget Netflix film that offers nothing new.
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Variety describes it as “a bland Millie Bobby Brown vehicle” and argues that “the filmmakers have diluted the source material, showing a clear lack of interest in making their creation just as haunting, searing and satisfying as the original product.”
The Guardian, meanwhile, says “There’s no soul, no originality, just a great big multi-color wedge of digital content.”
Jonathan Itkonen at Toisto.net concluded “In its original form, The Electric State is a work of exquisite and smart alternative history. As a film, it’s a waste of everyone’s time and energy.”
