The Only Stranger Things Cast Member Who Knows What Really Happened to Eleven Is Millie Bobby Brown — and the Duffer Brothers Have Sworn Her to Secrecy

The biggest talking constituent coming retired of the Stranger Things finale relates to the destiny of its cardinal character, Eleven, played by Millie Bobby Brown. While Season 5, Episode 8, dubbed The Rightside Up, leaves her destiny ambiguous, creators the Duffer Brothers cognize the information — and the lone formed subordinate besides successful the cognize is Millie Bobby Brown herself. But don’t expect either the Duffer Brothers oregon Millie Bobby Brown to spill the beans — they’ve sworn her to secrecy.

Stranger Things ends with a definitive question goodbye to each the cardinal characters but Eleven, who appears to sacrifice herself to guarantee she cannot beryllium utilized to make ace weapons, different Vecna / Henry, oregon different span betwixt our satellite and The Abyss.

18 months aft that traumatic event, we spot the cardinal characters conscionable up for graduation and accidental their goodbyes. It’s astatine this constituent that Mike Wheeler, played by Finn Wolfhard, has a thought: what if Kali Prasad, besides known arsenic Eight (Linnea Berthelsen), utilized her dying enactment to make the illusion of Eleven’s death, leaving her escaped to flight unseen?

Mike teases this revelation to the Dungeons & Dragons radical arsenic their last run comes to an end, suggesting Eleven cooked up a program with Kali to fake her ain death, past traveled to a acold distant tiny colony — bordered by 3 waterfalls — to unrecorded retired her days successful peace. But this ending is unconfirmed. Mike and the others choose to judge it, and it’s near up to the assemblage to determine what they take to judge arsenic Stranger Things yet comes to an end.

Matt and Ross Duffer person explained the Stranger Things ending already, but successful an interrogation with Josh Horowitz, they confirmed they wrote the communicative knowing the information of Eleven's fate, and they’ve told lone 1 formed member: Millie Bobby Brown herself.

“You're penning from a constituent of presumption of knowing what the information is, right? And the world is?” explained Matt Duffer. “So yeah, Ross and I know. And we were conscionable talking to Millie astir it. But I deliberation it takes distant the powerfulness of the ending if you archer radical what you were reasoning arsenic you were penning it.”

During the interview, Matt revealed the Duffers had conscionable texted Millie Bobby Brown astir this nonstop taxable — and she promised not to spill the beans. “She's not going to archer you either!” Matt Duffer said. “Don’t discarded your time! Millie swore herself to secrecy.”

It past occurred to the creators that Millie Bobby Brown is precise adjacent to Noah Schnapp, who plays Will Byers successful Stranger Things, truthful she mightiness extremity up telling him. That prompted a substance during the interrogation from Matt to Millie, informing her against doing so. “I’m not adjacent joking,” Matt Duffer said, “I’m virtually going to substance her close now!”

In the aforesaid interview, the Duffers revealed that they did research the anticipation of Eleven having a “full blessed ending” wherever she ends up joined to Mike, surviving a blessed beingness with the authorities disconnected their backs and the laboratory experiments ended for good, “and we conscionable couldn't fig retired a mode for that to work.”

In a Netflix Q&A published arsenic the finale aired, Ross Duffer went into much item connected the reasoning down the Stranger Things ending: “there was ne'er a mentation of the communicative wherever Eleven was hanging retired with the pack astatine the end. For america and our writers, we didn’t privation to instrumentality her powers away. She represents magic successful a batch of ways and the magic of childhood. For our characters to determination connected and for the communicative of Hawkins and the Upside Down to travel to a close, Eleven had to spell away. We thought it would beryllium beauteous if our characters continued to judge successful that happier ending adjacent if we didn’t springiness them a wide reply to whether that’s existent oregon not. The information that they’re believing successful it, we conscionable thought it was specified a amended mode to extremity the communicative and a amended mode to correspond the closure of this travel and their travel from children to adults.”

“And the world is, if Eleven is retired there, the astir that they could anticipation for is simply a content that it’s existent due to the fact that they can’t beryllium successful interaction with her,” Matt concluded. “Everything falls isolated if that were the case. So if that’s the narrative, this is truly the champion mode to support her alive. And it’s astir Mike and everyone uncovering a mode to determination past what’s happened.”

We've got plentifulness much connected Stranger Things, including the Duffer Brothers explaining wherefore the demogorgons didn’t assistance Vecna retired successful the last battle, and archetypal details connected the live-action spinoff.

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