‘I just wanted to do everything I could to make sure she was safe and she understood that a career is a rollercoaster.' Stranger Things's Matthew Modine said he went to great lengths to protect Millie Bobby Brown from being ‘destroyed’ by fame ❤️️
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Asked about working with Millie, when she was at such a young age and new to the industry, the 63-year-old responds: ‘[I was] wanting to be protective of her. How the business changed, when you saw me in Birdy to today… if a movie was successful in 20 or 30 countries around the world, that would be an enormous success.
‘Netflix is in over 190 territories around the world. So what Millie was subject to was global. What she was exposed to – and what all the children on this show were exposed to – was a kind of fame and popularity and notoriety that ever existed in the entertainment industry.’ He continued: ‘Over the course of my career, [there have been] young actors and actresses whose lives were destroyed by that kind of fame and money and everything. It can be very destructive and disorienting.‘I just wanted to do everything I could to make sure she was safe and she understood that a career is a rollercoaster, that there’s ups and downs to it.’
As well as starring in Stranger Things, Millie has gone on to feature in films such as the Sherlock Holmes spin-off Enola Holmes and Godzilla: King of Monsters.She had also previously raised a few eyebrows by claiming that the earth was flat in a TikTok video when she was 14 years old., saying that she no longer buys into the conspiracy in a lie detector test with Vanity Fair.
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