Millie Bobby Brown unveiled her full real name. Hint: It sounds really, really similar

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It turns retired that Millie Bobby Brown isn’t really the “Stranger Things” breakout star’s existent name. But it is close.

The 21-year-old British prima this week spilled the beans astir her commencement sanction up of her newest Netflix film, “Electric State,” with co-star Chris Pratt. She revealed successful an interview with Buzzfeed UK that her existent sanction is conscionable 4 letters distant from her signifier name.

“My mediate sanction is Bonnie,” she told her co-star. “It’s Millie Bonnie Brown.”

She added: “I’ve ne'er told anyone that. You heard it present first.”

”The Office” and the “Guardians of the Galaxy” prima Pratt was seemingly successful disbelief astatine the reveal, asking his co-star, “Your mediate sanction is Bonnie?”

Brown explained that the sanction alteration was simply for “giggles.”

Brown joins the latest cohort of Hollywood stars getting existent astir their existent names. Last twelvemonth “Poor Things” prima Emma Stone and “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” prima Michael Keaton revealed what was down their signifier monikers.

Stone, during an interrogation successful April with her “The Curse” co-star Nathan Fielder, said it “would beryllium truthful nice” if fans utilized her existent name: Emily. “Birdman” histrion Keaton said successful September that helium wants to commencement going by his commencement name: Michael Keaton Douglas. Both actors said they opted for existent signifier names aft learning that different actors successful the Screen Actors Guild had already snagged their preferred names.

So acold connected the property circuit for “Electric State,” Brown has made headlines for much than conscionable her existent name. Earlier this week, Brown took to Instagram to shut down critics, including respective journalists, who “are spending their clip dissecting my face, my body, my choices.”

“I started successful this manufacture erstwhile I was 10 years old. I grew up successful beforehand of the world, and for immoderate reason, radical can’t look to turn with me,” she said successful an Instagram video. “Instead, they enactment similar I’m expected to enactment frozen successful time, similar I should inactive look the mode I did connected ‘Stranger Things’ Season 1.”

She received enactment for her connection from different celebrities including Sharon Stone, Mario Lopez, Lilly Singh and Octavia Spencer successful the comments section. Her co-star Pratt besides near a supportive message, penning “some of these journalists are bittersweet and lonely folks.”

He added: “We’ll commune for em. You look great!! And much importantly you person a beauteous heart.”

Pratt besides seemed to amusement enactment for Brown beyond societal media during a caller property conference. Netizens lauded the “Jurassic World” alum arsenic the “ultimate gentleman” aft helium shielded Brown, who wore a miniskirt, from the audience’s presumption arsenic she got up from a chair.

Brown stars successful “The Electric State” arsenic an orphaned teen who teams with a mustachioed smuggler portrayed by Pratt connected her hunt for a long-lost member crossed a robot-littered nation. Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, Woody Normanalso prima successful the film, with Giancarlo Esposito and Stanley Tucci.

“Avengers” alums Anthony Russo and Joe Russo nonstop “The Electric State,” which begins streaming connected Netflix connected March 14.

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