Millie Bobby Brown Says She Was a Gay Soldier in Her Past Life

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Millie Bobby Brown believes strange things may have happened to her in a past life.

The Stranger Things alum shared her hunch that she was a closeted gay soldier who suffered a painful death in a past life, detailing how pain she occasionally experiences in her back has led her to this theory.

“Oh, I actually know exactly who I was,” Brown told her Enola Holmes 3 costar Louis Partridge during an interview with Capital Buzz published July 1. “I died. Basically, I have a birthmark [on] my lower back, the very bottom of my spine, which is obviously meant to be the way that you died in your past life.”

“In war—I don't know if this happened a lot or not—but swords, to kill people but make them have a painful death, they would put swords up people's spines,” she explained. “So, they were completely paralyzed, but they would obviously die, and that's how I think I died. So, I think I might have been a soldier.”

Though she’s still working out the kinks of her previous profession, Brown is certain about one aspect of her lost identity.

“I was definitely a man,” she added. “Hopefully, a closeted gay man.”

But the 22-year-old—whose costar admitted to not sharing her belief in past lives—may be spot-on about her sword-wielding background. After all, she has a knack for tackling stunt-heavy roles onscreen. For her 2024 film Damsel she detailed what it was like to perform all her own stunts.

“I feel like the female version of Tom Cruise,” Brown said during a 2024 appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show. “I did all my own stunts from start to finish.”

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Though she’s proud of the outcome, Brown—mom to a baby girl with husband Jake Bongiovi—admitted that performing in the action-packed scenes felt upside down at first.

“I’m really scared about doing my own stunts. Stunts are scary,” she said. “You’re just like, ‘I’m not physically trained to do this.'”

But if it means inspiring more female actors to take the leap into doing their own stunts, she’s happy to lead the charge.

"I really want young girls to think they can, you know? You'll always hear an older actor say, 'Don't do your own stunts,' and I get that,” Brown told Josh Horowitz at the June 24 live recording of his Happy Sad Confused podcast at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, according to People. “But back in the day, they might have been throwing you against a wall.”

"And now,” she added, "if you get a really great stunt coordinator and you learn how to land and you learn the whole technique of it, we as actors should know how to do certain things.”

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