Game of Thrones: Millie Bobby Brown nearly quit acting after being rejected from HBO show
Actor found fame at 12 years old in Netflix's hit series ‘Stranger Things’
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Your support makes all the difference.Millie Bobby Brown has said that she nearly quit acting after she was rejected from a role in Game of Thrones.
The Emmy-nominated actor revealed she had auditioned for a part in the HBO fantasy series before she was cast as Eleven in Stranger Things.
Brown opened up about her early rejections during an appearance on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon on Friday (2 October).
“This industry is just full of rejection, 24/7. You get far more nos – a lot of nos – before you get a yes. I was auditioning for commercials, for anything really,” she said.
The 16-year-old told Fallon: “I then auditioned for Game of Thrones and I got a no for that. Then that’s kind of when I was like, ‘Oh this is really difficult,’ because I guess I really wanted that role.”
Brown went on to audition for Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things – previously titled Montauk – stating that the try-out was “one of my last kind of goes at this”.
“Two months later, they got back to us and was like, ‘We’d love to Skype with you,’” she said. “I Skyped with them and, you know, the rest is history, of course.
“We then named the show Stranger Things, but Montauk was definitely the one that gave me that kind of hope of doing it all again.”
While no release date has been announced for season four of Stranger Things, it is unlikely the show will return before July 2021.
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Most recently, the actor starred as the titular role in Netflix’s Sherlock spin-off titled Enola Holmes. You can read The Independent’s three-star review of the film here.
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