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- Millie Bobby Brown criticized leaked salary contracts and said they put child actors at risk.
- She told Vanity Fair that contracts she signed as a child “should have been protected.”
- Brown was reportedly paid $10 million for Netflix’s 2022 film “Enola Holmes 2.”
Millie Bobby Brown says she’s learned from her experience as a child actor that salary contracts should be protected rather than leaked because they endanger young actors.
Brown, who rose to prominence playing Eleven on Netflix’s wildly popular sci-fi series “Stranger Things,” reacted to reports about her hefty paydays (including a reported $10 million deal to return for 2022’s “Enola Holmes 2”) in a new Vanity Fair cover story published on Wednesday.
The 20-year-old actor said that contracts she signed as a child “should have been protected so that they’re not on the record,” instead of being leaked.
“It just puts children in a really dangerous situation,” she added.
Brown didn’t elaborate on the specific dangers of contract leaks for child actors, but she told the publication, “I think everybody’s a little bit too lax about the way that children are brought up in the industry.”
Brown played Enola Holmes, the sleuthing younger sister of Henry Cavill’s Sherlock Holmes, in the 2020 movie and its sequel and also served as a producer for both. But the young star was already Netflix’s golden child long before that.
Brown was 11 years old when she first portrayed Eleven. In a cast comprised of veteran stars Winona Ryder and David Harbor and younger rising talents, Brown became the breakout of season one, which premiered in 2016.
By season three of “Stranger Things,” the cast had landed significant salary bumps, with Brown reportedly earning at least $250,000 per episode, per Deadline. (Netflix declined to comment at the time.)
For the fifth and final season of “Stranger Things,” coming this year, most cast members reportedly earned $6 to $9 million-plus. Brown, however, has a separate, lucrative deal in place that also includes her films for the streamer (like the “Enola Holmes” movies” and the upcoming “The Electric State”), according to Puck’s Matthew Belloni.
Speaking to Vanity Fair, the actor credited Netflix and her parents for protecting her during her rise to fame.
“I grew up with a lot of eyes on my parents, but I feel that those were the people that protected me the most,” she said, adding that her family taught her to “say no at a very young age” and advocate for herself.
