Millie Bobby Brown will not voice Eleven in Stranger Things: Tales From ’85. Brooklyn Davey Norstedt has taken over the role in the animated Stranger Things project, which places the characters between seasons 2 and 3.
Eric Robles on younger voices
Eric Robles said the change was deliberate. “Bringing in anybody from the original cast, you're now talking about older voices. Everybody's going to mature. So having these designs that take place in season 2, having these dark, deep voices, it would really throw it off. We wanted to capture the youthfulness, which is what the Duffer Brothers really enjoyed about those early seasons. They wanted the spontaneous words and sentences that would come out of these kids' mouths.”
Brown portrayed Eleven across five seasons of Stranger Things, and the character became closely identified with her. The animated series moved away from that association by recasting every returning Stranger Things character, not just Eleven, so the voices would fit the earlier timeline instead of the adult cast.
Brooklyn Davey Norstedt takes over
Norstedt now voices Eleven in Stranger Things: Tales From ’85. That leaves the animated series with a new cast across the returning roles, even as the story stays inside the Stranger Things world and revisits the period between seasons 2 and 3.
Netflix has renewed Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 for season 2. For viewers who followed Brown’s run as Eleven, the practical change is simple: the animated version is built around younger-sounding performances, not the live-action voices that defined the character before.
