- We said if we're not married by 40,
we will get married together,
because we'd be good roomies.
- We would. - Completely platonically.
We would still be really good roomies.
- OK. - No kids, though.
'Cause I could not deal with a child of yours.
- That's my deal-breaker.
- Yeah. That's my deal-breaker, too.
- No kids. - Yeah. No kids at all.
Only dogs.
And separate bedrooms for sure.
My god, you ‘re so messy.
OK. So, Noah. - Hi.
- The fans have waited a very long -
- Nice to meet you. - Hello, I'm Millie.
Good to meet you, I'm your interviewer today.
The fans have waited ages for Season 4.
How excited are you?
What are you feeling?
- All the emotions.
I'm really excited for the fans to finally get it,
because I feel like they're always harassing me
and commenting on all my things, like,
"When is Season 4? Where is it?
We need it now."
So I'm excited just to see the feedback
and the support and see how they love it.
'Cause this is definitely gonna be the biggest season yet.
And we have a lot of stuff together this season,
and I'm excited for the fans to see that.
What scenes, while filming, scared you, if any?
[Laughs]
- You're so bad at paraphrasing.
It's like not a skill that you have.
- No, no.
This season is taking it up a notch,
and it's a lot scarier.
So were there any scenes that got to you?
[Laughs]
- Yeah, so many.
Mostly in 'Volume 2,'
so I can't really touch on 'Volume 1.'
- Oh, you're gonna pull that card?
- Yeah.
No, it's true.
- Yeah. It is true.
- You know what I'm talking about.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- What about you?
- A scene where we were - it was a shootout,
and we were running through the house,
and the whole day we rehearsed the scene
without the bullets or any of the, like, action of it.
So on the first take they did was with all the bullets
and all the glass breaking
and the whole house breaking down.
So right on the first take, I felt that raw fear.
- It was a really, really important shot
that they had to get.
We have an amazing safety team
that makes sure that everything is -
- Yeah but there were like -
- There's so many special effects
and there's air and there's noises.
And the first take, you guys got it.
And the reaction that you guys had was so beautiful.
You guys were so happy that you were done
and you all hugged each other, group-hugged.
And those things I think are always kind of fearful,
like, when you go into it.
- Yeah, for sure.
It was definitely scary, but it looks great.
How does it feel just to see young Eleven?
- To actually see myself again
as that 10-year-old girl with the buzz cut -
- [Noah] That was crazy to see.
- And the hospital gown,
it was like, so nostalgic for me. It's -
- And tell about the filming, like, how they do that.
- Yeah. So basically what happened was
we used an amazing actress who played my body, I guess.
And then I went to L.A. and I worked
in this amazing thing called the egg, the "Lola egg."
And we basically worked in there for three days,
and we did facial expressions.
We did every single scene from start to finish
just using my face.
No action.
So it was just me turning my face,
doing the whole scene as her.
And then they deepfaked it onto
her little body, Martie [Blair]'s body.
And it, I mean -
- Looks so real. - Incredible, incredible work.
I did nothing.
I can't imagine what they were doing for two years.
I did three days of that and it was exhausting enough. So -
[Laughs]
- What was more challenging to play for you:
Eleven trying to get her powers back,
or just through high school struggles?
- Gosh, I think they're both incredibly hard.
Both things that I'm not very used to.
You know, I'm not really used to getting my powers back,
and I'm also not very used to going through high school.
I was home-schooled my whole life.
Both were very hard.
I definitely had to do a lot more
character searching and character development
for the high school stuff.
Really understanding who Eleven is
in those kind of environments.
- I feel like that is hard for Eleven.
- It is hard, yeah.
- It's so different.
- But then going to, like, the upside down
and dealing with that whole situation again,
it's always physically demanding, quite mentally demanding.
But I also wanna know, what was it like,
for you to do that?
Like, you also have to deal with stuff in high school,
and then you also, in Season 2,
dealt with the Mind Flayer and everything like that.
Like what do you think's more difficult?
- Yeah. I mean, it's just different struggles,
and you just have to channel different places
to play that type of role.
'Cause it's just a whole different, like -
- Ballgame.
- Yeah.
I mean, of course, like, it's so physically demanding
with the Mind Flayer stuff and just screaming all day,
and, like - but I think this season was really just like
more emotional for me,
and just more personal.
And that's tough.
- That's always tough. - Yeah.
- And it makes you actually sometimes more tired
at the end of the day than it would
if you're physically giving yourself to the work.
It's actually sometimes more draining
if you give yourself mentally. - Yeah, I agree.
Yeah.
- Noah, you and I have been friends for eight years.
I've known you since I was 10.
- Yeah.
- We have built such a friendship together, I feel like.
And you're also one of the longest friends I've ever had.
- Yes, me too. - I don't know if you know that,
but like I didn't grow up in school,
so I didn't have any friends from my childhood.
So you are really one of those people for me.
How do you think that that helps,
our off-set friendship?
How do you think that helps on set?
- I mean, I think chemistry is so important.
Like, on set and just getting along with each other.
And I think me and Millie, just like we had a week together
where we just had to film just us at the school,
and it was just so fun and it makes work so much easier.
And like, I just love being at work and stuff.
And I think when you love it and you're having fun,
like, you can do such a better job.
- Yeah.
- We both encourage each other
and cheer each other on when we're doing well.
And it's nice to have that support
and, like, it was fun.
I loved it.
- And something I do wanna add is that being a young girl
in the industry, it's really hard
when you are constantly surrounded by male energy.
Something that Noah has always done so well
is made me feel so comfortable, so empowered,
and you know, he is an amazing co-star to riff off of.
He has always been my biggest supporter, cheering me on.
And you know, for that, especially in this day and age,
I think it's really nice to have boys like that.
Boys that support girls like that.
- Aw, you’re gonna make me cry.
[Laughs]
Yeah, so it's the comfortability.
We make each other comfortable.
- Yeah. - And then you feel
like you're in a creative space
to explore everything and anything.
But when you don't have that, you can feel uncomfortable
and you feel like it's not, you know, you can't develop.
- And I think being able to act off of someone
who's just so good helps personally
for your acting to be well.
And like, if we had just some crazy scene together,
of the most challenging acting,
like, if it was with you, I know I could just like crush it,
because like we would be so good together.
- I know. We are so good together.
- Yeah.
- But everyone on set knows that we are, you know,
you cannot trust us to keep a straight face.
Especially when we're together.
- Yeah.
- I don't know what Netflix was thinking
putting us together for press.
[Laughs]
We are just wild.
But it's always fun.
It's always been a really genuine connection.
- It is. Yeah.
- What has been your favorite 'Stranger Things' memory?
- Oh my god. There's so many.
I just think all our late-night shoots
and just the random stuff.
Like, I feel like it's so much bonding
when we're just staying up 'til
four in the morning filming.
I mean, just growing up together.
I mean -
I still remember meeting you for the first time
at the studios, like that's a vivid memory.
- Those things are, like, timeless.
I think those memories for me, you know,
especially not having gone to school,
and you went to, you know, you went to real school,
but those are my school memories, so -
- Yeah, no, same.
- Doing school with you, I remember being 11,
being in the same grade and always wanting to be together.
So we'd have, like, our own classrooms,
but Noah and I would say,
"Please." - Oh yeah, we were split
into classrooms. But we were always in the same group.
- I know, because we always wanted to be together.
And even though, I don't know why,
because we never learned anything.
- It was so chaotic.
- If we were in the same room,
we never learned one thing together.
- Not at all.
- But it was just so fun.
We decorated our classroom together.
- Yeah, oh, I miss that.
- And we got rugs and bean bags
and we got so many snacks,
and it was like, we went and had lunch together,
and we had to sit in school
for sometimes seven, eight hours doing bank.
Remember we had to bank our hours?
And it was, like, the most exhausting thing.
But doing it together was the best.
I think things like those memories and the teachers
we went through.
- Oh my god, like water.
There were so many of them.
- The teachers would just drop like flies.
Because nobody could deal with us both.
[Laughs]
Noah, what can we expect from 'Volume 2' of Season 4?
- I mean, we can expect just, like, any end-of-the-season,
seeing how all the storylines and all the different places
finally come together.
- Yeah. - And how that works.
And, yeah, I mean,
don't want to give away the ending,
but it's also kind of evident
that it's the penultimate season.
And we're getting into the end here.
- Because this show is so global,
we have Russia, we have Hawkins, and we have California.
In 'Volume 2,' like Noah said, you see it all come back
to where we started.
And I think that's gonna be very rewarding for our fans.
- Yeah. - For this penultimate season.