Who Plays Young Eleven In Stranger Things 4 (Was She De-Aged?)
Warning! SPOILERS for Stranger Things season 4.
Stranger Things season 4, volume 1 features flashbacks to younger Eleven when she was a patient in Hawkins lab, but does Millie Bobby Brown play her? After several pandemic-related delays, Stranger Things returned with a penultimate season of epic proportions and two separate volumes. The first volume introduces a new Upside Down adversary that the team must battle and delves more into Eleven's time under Dr. Brenner's (Matthew Modine) care in Stranger Things.
In season 3 of Stranger Things, Eleven loses her powers after closing the gate to the Upside Down. Much of season 4, volume 1 follows Eleven's struggles navigating high school bullies without her special abilities. After an incident at the roller skate rink, Dr. Owens (Paul Reiser) comes to Eleven with a proposition to restore her "superhero" status, which involves Dr. Brenner (who survived the Demogorgon attack from season 1), a sensory deprivation tank, and Eleven confronting her traumatic memories of Hawkins Lab.
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Season 4 kicks off with a flashback to 1979 and the Hawkins lab massacre, a catastrophic event Eleven is seemingly blamed for. In some of the memories Eleven is forced to relive in later episodes, she sees her younger self in the mirrors around the lab. Instead of using Millie Bobby Brown for these scenes, eight-year-old Eleven is played by Martie Blair in flashbacks, with Brown's de-aged face superimposed on Blair's at times. Stranger Things season 4 is Blair's second role in television – she's played Bella on The Young and the Restless and has been in a handful of short films like The Sugar & Bones Club and Safe.
Blair's performance as
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