‘Stranger Things’ Creators Respond to Star, Millie Bobby Brown’s, Complaint about Show

Millie Bobby Brown says that the creators of  Stranger Things should be a little more ruthless with the show’s ever-expanding cast.

“It’s way too big,” Brown, who plays Eleven on the hit Netflix series, joked in an interview with The Wrap. “Last night, we couldn’t even take one group picture because there was like 50 of us. I was like, ‘You need to start killing people off.’”

The Duffers told the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast that they heard Brown’s comments.

“What did Millie call us? She said we were ‘sensitive Sallies.’ She’s hilarious,” Matt Duffer said, per Rolling Stone. “Believe us, we’ve explored all options in the writing room.”

Brown said that the Duffers should take a cue from “Game of Thrones” and wipe out a main character. Schnapp, who plays Will, suggested having a massacre that takes out half the cast.

The two people were laughing during the conversation, so these may not have been very serious suggestions.

Either way, the Duffers said that approach wasn’t for them.

“Just as a complete hypothetical, if you kill Mike [Finn Wolfhard], it’s like… that’s depressing… we aren’t ‘Game of Thrones,‘” Matt Duffer said on “Happy Sad Confused.” “This is Hawkins, it’s not Westeros. The show becomes not ‘Stranger Things’ anymore, because you do have to treat it realistically, right?”

Matt Duffer said that the death of a character early in the series had a ripple effect.

“So, even when Barb dies, there’s two seasons worth of grappling with that,” he said. “So imagine – is that something we’re interested in exploring or not interested in exploring?”

Matt Duffer said that there might be more deaths in the fifth and final season.