“It Meant So Much”: Millie Bobby Brown Reveals She Was ‘Broken’ After Losing a Major Hugh Jackman Movie Role

Before she became famous as Eleven in ‘Stranger Things‘, Millie Bobby Brown experienced one of the toughest moments every young actor fears. She recently opened up in an interview about how she was left devastated after screen-testing for a big movie with Hugh Jackman, only to lose out on the role.

Now starring in ‘Enola Holmes 3,’ she talked about that old disappointment for Entertainment Weekly’s “Lie vs. Lie” video series. She said she was around 11 or 12 when she got to test with Jackman for what she called one of “the Wolverine movies.”

The Wolverine Movie Role That Millie Bobby Brown Missed Out On

When Brown’s co-star Louis Partridge asked how she felt after walking out of that room, she did not hold back. Her answer was short and honest. “Broken,” Brown said. “I felt like I probably didn’t get it, because I think there was someone else that was better.”

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The part was Laura Kinney, also known as X-23, in the 2017 movie ‘Logan‘. That role went to Dafne Keen, who was great in it and earned a lot of praise. She even played the character again in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine‘. Brown first tried to be vague about which movie it was, but then she admitted, “It’s true. And it was for Logan.”

Millie Bobby Brown Once Called Her ‘Logan’ Audition Her Best One Yet

This is not the first time Brown has talked about that audition. Back in 2017, she did Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series when she was 13 and had a somewhat different take on it then. At that time, she said it was her best audition ever.

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“I was like, ‘It’s going to be amazing, I’m going to really prepare,’ and I sat in my room reading the lines,” she remembered. She revealed how exciting it was to act in front of Hugh Jackman and the director James Mangold. “Honestly, for me, I felt so—I felt an actor, in the audition room, hitting Hugh Jackman, and James Mangold sitting right in front of me.”

Even though she felt ready, she said Keen was the right pick. “I watched it; she was incredible,” Brown said back then. “It meant so much to me.“

How Losing ‘Logan’ Paved the Way for ‘Stranger Things’ and ‘Enola Holmes 3’

Not getting that Marvel role was tough, but it did not slow her down. A year before that ‘Logan‘ audition, ‘Stranger Things‘ came out on Netflix and made her a huge star as Eleven. So she ended up playing a girl with superpowers anyway, just in a different world.

Her new movie, ‘Enola Holmes 3‘, came out on Netflix on July 1, and it shows just how big of a star she has become.

Looking back, losing out to Keen, who was a year younger, stung for sure. But it also taught her something about bouncing back. Even when you feel “broken” after a rejection, a “no” from a casting person is not the end of the road, especially when a role like Eleven is right around the corner.

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