It’s been several years since Stranger Things first debuted on Netflix and, as the internet loves to frequently point out, the cast has grown up a lot since the show first began.
While the actors behind the characters of Will, Mike, Lucas, Dustin and Eleven were all close to the ages of their characters when the show began filming in 2015, they’ve all grown into young adults as the years have gone by. They can barely pass as freshmen in high school, let alone younger versions of themselves from the events of previous seasons.
So when the creative team decided to revisit key moments from Eleven’s past in season 4, they had to get, well, creative by bringing in a younger actress to help play young Eleven. With the magic of technology, they then used CGI effects to digitally place Millie Bobby Brown’s face onto the young actor’s body.
It’s a tool many studios have used, most recently with Lucasfilm bringing in a stand-in actor to shoot scenes as Luke Skywalker for The Mandalorian and using technology to then make them look like Mark Hamill in post-production.
We know Millie Bobby Brown’s likeness was used to bring young Eleven to life, but what about the actress responsible for filming the scenes as the stand-in?
In the fourth season of Stranger Things actress Martie Blair joins the cast as Young Eleven. The young actress might not appear on-screen directly thanks to the magic of CGI transforming her into Millie Bobby Brown’s Eleven, but she does an incredible job as the stand-in actor responsible for shooting the scenes across the season.
Blair is still a relatively new actress with her biggest credit prior to Stranger Things coming via her role as Bella Fisher in The Young and the Restless from 2018-2022.
Stranger Things season 4 is streaming now on Netflix.
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