Millie Bobby Brown Reveals Her Actual Identify — And Why She Modified It!

Throughout their press tour for The Electrical State, the Stranger Issues star revealed that her precise center title is not Bobby — stunning costar Chris Pratt in an interview with BuzzFeed UK.

“My center title is Bonnie,” Brown, 21 stated. “No, it is not Bobby … It is Millie Bonnie Brown. I’ve by no means informed anybody that.”

Pratt was shocked by the reveal, exclaiming, “Actually? Your center title is Bonnie? However you simply modified it to Bobby for …,” earlier than she interjected, “S–ts and giggles.” She then confirmed it was simply her stage title.

“No s–t,” quipped Pratt.

All through the press tour for the Netflix movie, Brown’s look has come underneath scrutiny on-line.

In considered one of her most up-to-date Instagram submit, Brown addressed critics and media retailers speaking about her seems to be, accusing them of “bullying” her. She talked about a number of headlines in her Instagram caption from “information retailers, articles, and people who find themselves so determined to tear younger girls down.”

Brown known as out a headline about British Comic Matt Lucas‘ feedback evaluating the actress to his Little Britain character, Vicky Pollard. She learn, ”Little Britain’s Matt Lucas takes savage swipe at Millie Bobby Brown’s new ‘mommy makeover’ look,” questioning why the outlet settled on “amplifying an insult relatively than questioning why a grown man is mocking a younger lady’s look.”

The article targeted on how Lucas shared a submit on X, previously Twitter, wherein he commented on Brown’s leaving a restaurant in Los Angeles together with her youthful sister. As proven within the photograph, beneath, the Enola Holmes star wore a pink observe jacket and her blonde hair was styled in an updo.

“This is not journalism. That is bullying. The truth that grownup writers are spending their time dissecting my face, my physique, my selections, is disturbing. The truth that a few of these articles are written by girls makes it worse,” Brown continued. “We at all times discuss supporting and uplifting younger girls, however when it comes all the way down to it, it appears quite a bit simpler to only tear them down for clicks. Disillusioned folks cannot deal with seeing a lady turn out to be a girl on her phrases, not their very own.”

“I refuse to apologize for rising up. I refuse to make myself smaller to suit the unrealistic expectations of people that cannot deal with seeing a lady turn out to be a girl. I cannot be shamed for a way I look, how I gown, or how I current myself,” she added. “We’ve turn out to be a society the place it is a lot simpler to criticize than it’s to pay a praise. Why is it the knee-jerk response to say one thing horrible relatively than to say one thing good? When you’ve got an issue with that, I’ve to marvel — what’s it that really makes you so uncomfortable? Let’s do higher. Not only for me, however for each younger woman who deserves to develop up with out worry of being torn aside for merely current.”

A couple of hours later, Lucas issued an apology to Brown on Instagram, and provided context behind his joke.

“Expensive Millie, I simply noticed your submit and wished to reply, and supply some context,” he started in a press release. “Practically 25 years in the past I co-wrote and appeared in a sketch present known as Little Britain. There was a personality in it known as Vicky Pollard, who had blonde hair and at all times wore a pink high, and within the photograph you had blonde hair and wore a pink high so I identified the similarity by posting considered one of her catchphrases.”

“I assumed you appeared terrific and I used to be mortified when the press wrote that I ‘slammed’ you,  firstly as a result of that is not my type and secondly as a result of I feel you are good,” he continued. “I might not have posted it if I had thought it will have upset you however I reali[z]e it has and for that I apologi[z]e. Matt x.”

Brown has not publicly commented on Lucas’ apology.