Charlie Heaton has shared his thoughts on Eleven’s emotional ending in Stranger Things.
Weighing in on the fan debate over whether the character survived the series finale, in a new interview with Us every weekthe 31-year-old actor discussed Mike’s take on what really happened to Eleven, played by Millie Bobby Brown, after the events of season 5.
“I love that for Mike, that’s what he tells us, you know, it’s adapting, right?” Heaton told the outlet.
At the end of the blow Netflix series, Mike suggested that Eleven’s goodbye was not because she was dying, but because she was planning to run away.
He expressed his belief that she had finally managed to make her way to a country with three waterfalls because he had promised that they would find it once their battle was over.
Mike also made it clear that his explanation was just a theory, leading him and his friends to each declare, “I believe.”
Reflecting on the significance of this moment, Heaton explained what speaks to him most about the ending.
“The stories we choose to believe and the versions of our reality we choose to believe in order to cope with them.”
“and I think it’s really beautiful,” he concluded.
