'Stranger Things' kids: 6 things you didn't know about the breakout cast

Millie Bobby Brown, who plays Eleven in the hit Netflix show, underwent a dramatic buzzed Mad Max-like haircut for her role.
In a post for Entertainment Weekly, the show’s creators Matt and Ross Duffer opened up about the dramatic cut writing, "When the day of the haircut finally arrived, Millie’s mom brought out a camcorder, while her dad ran away with tears in his eyes, unable to watch. It was a pretty dramatic scene. But also very quick. Within 10 minutes we had shaved it all off and slapped a fake “11” tattoo on Millie’s wrist. Millie looked at herself in the mirror, gave her best Furiosa scream — and Eleven was born."

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Millie and her co-star Noah Schnapp, who plays Will Byers on the thrilling show, were admittedly the biggest pranksters on set. While answering Facebook Live questions the two confessed to pranking the show's creators Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer by pretending Millie was sick. The dynamic duo also played a trick on the costume designer by pretending to be the manager of her wedding venue and saying it was unavailable.
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Prior to filming, the kids who came from all over, New York, Canada and the UK, formed a group chat on their phones and “incessantly” began texting each other. The show’s creators revealed to EW, “By the time they arrived in Atlanta, they were already a close-knit group.” [ Gaten Matarazzo, Millie Bobby Brown, Noah Schnapp, Caleb McClaughlin and Finn Wolfhard]
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During a Facebook Live session, the young cast revealed that they prepped for their Netflix show by watching '80s movies. Among their favorites were The Goonies, E.T., Stand By Me, Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles. In fact, Millie revealed that she was told to relate her character to Steven Spielberg's alien character E.T.
It was also announced that the series will return for a second season in 2017.
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Before playing Dustin on the sci-fi series, Gaten Matarazzo took on Broadway playing Gavroche in the smash-musical Les Misérables.
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While visiting the Tonight Show in New York City, 12-year-old budding star Millie Brown opened up to host Jimmy Fallon about having her first kiss with co-star Finn Wolfhard on their hit Netflix show, Stranger Things.
"It was your first kiss, right?" the host asked, to which she responded, "Yup." She added, "It was great."
The pair revealed that Finn went through two packs of Tic Tacs prior to filming the scene. The show's creators, the Duffer brothers, "didn't help" make it any less awkward by sending them kiss-y face emojis. After the scene Millie admitted she said, "Kissing sucks," while she said Finn was like, "It wasn't too bad."

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