‘What happened to her accent?’: Millie Bobby Brown confuses fans

Los Angeles| Millie Bobby Brown confused fans with her changing accent as she appeared on Thursday’s episode of The Tonight Show to promote her new film, Enola Holmes 2.

The British beauty, 18, grew up in Dorset, England, and plays an English detective in her new movie, yet sounded like a born and bred California girl as she chatted away to Jimmy Fallon.

Viewers were quick to take to Twitter to express their shock, with one fan remarking they didn’t even know Millie was British as she’s best known for her role in the American Netflix series, Stranger Things. 

‘Why are people crying about Millie Bobby Brown losing her Br*tish accent?? That should be a blessing.’; ‘Wait, why is Millie Bobby Brown now speaking with an American accent?’; What happened to her accent’. Millie previously revealed that she was losing her British accent after relocating to Florida with her family at the age of eight and then starring in Stranger Things.  Speaking to Radio Times, she said: ‘For the last five years I’ve been playing an American character in Stranger Things and I found it really challenging being British in this, even though I am a Brit.

‘I had to learn how to speak again because I’m so used to speaking in an American accent.’ 

Ironically, Millie initially struggled to perfect an American accent, admitting she learnt by mimicking Miley Cyrus in Hannah Montana.

She told Jimmy Fallon in 2020: ‘I watched Bugsy Malone and Godfather when I was like eight and my parents were like, you know, watching all these movies with me and I was like ‘Yeah but Hannah Montana is like Oscar-nominating, like it’s so good.’

‘Hannah Montana is the best, the film, everything. Everything about it is amazing.’ Millie isn’t the only British star that’s struggled to keep their accent after moving across the pond.

Brooklyn Beckham showed off his multitude of accents during a candid interview about his love for cookery.

The star, who was raised between London, Madrid and Los Angeles, said: ‘My favourite thing to cook a lot, she loves angel hair pasta with pink sauce.