Millie Bobby Brown’s movie "Damsel" is meant to mirror her career

Millie Bobby Brown, the talented young actress known for her role in the hit series "Stranger Things," has recently announced her involvement in a new project titled "damsel." The movie is said to mirror Brown's own career journey, as it follows the story of a young woman who must navigate the challenges and obstacles of Hollywood while trying to maintain her sense of self.

Just like her character in the film, Brown has had to navigate the complexities of fame and success at a very young age. Despite facing criticism and scrutiny from the public eye, she has remained true to herself and continued to shine as a rising star in Hollywood.

Elodie must rely on her wit and skills to survive rather than waiting for a knight in shining armor to save her. “She’s a damsel who doesn’t need to be saved,” the Stranger Things star told Netflix’s Tudum. “She saves herself in many ways. It subverts what you expect: You’re expecting the prince to turn around and save her, and… no. Don’t wait for the prince.”

Her family, led by father (Ray Winstone) and stepmother (Angela Bassett) are struggling and so are her people, in need of a miracle to save them. It magically arrives as an offer of marriage, a handsome prince from a far away kingdom (Nick Robinson) wants to make her his wife, steered by a strong-willed queen (Robin Wright). But her happy ending is in fact an unhappy beginning, the wedding part of an ancient ritual that sees her hurled into a cave, sacrificed to a dragon. Romance curdles into horror as Elodie must scramble back to safety.

It’s a tweenage riff on a classic left-for-dead revenge tale and in a subgenre that has been done to exhaustion, watching a young woman endure this same physically gruelling rise-to-action-hero status does feel at least superficially fresher (in comparison to another bride-finds-out-wedding-is-sacrifice thriller, it’s far more effective than 2019’s Ready or Not, a film far too pleased with itself to care if we’re as entertained).

“The concept of her triumphing over the dragon, and then in some ways of harnessing the dragon’s power and leaving the cave with that power, was baked into the story from the beginning. There was an earlier version where the dragon did not survive the story,” Mazeau said. “We felt, in sort of exploring and developing the story, that we all really became attached to the character of the dragon. It felt like, in some ways, they were both victims of this situation, and so it felt right for both of them to come out changed, both of them to survive.”

What does that mean for their bond? In a story loaded with themes of motherhood and women who become their own heroes, what does the dynamic shifted into after all that cat-and-mouse? Mazeau isn’t sure.

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 Sarah H

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