{"id":2228695,"date":"2026-01-09T18:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2228695"},"modified":"2026-01-09T18:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:47:19","slug":"exclusive-how-elevens-romantic-waterfall-look-in-stranger-things-series-finale-was-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/exclusive-how-elevens-romantic-waterfall-look-in-stranger-things-series-finale-was-created\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | How Eleven&#8217;s &#8216;romantic&#8217; waterfall look in &#8216;Stranger Things&#8217; series finale was created"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F01%2Fseason-5-millie-bobby-brown-118449419.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>She was dialed up to Eleven.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Retro Netflix hit \u201cStranger Things\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/31\/entertainment\/how-did-stranger-things-end-and-did-it-stick-the-landing\/\">recently ended after five seasons<\/a> and ten years, giving nearly every character a happy ending \u2014 except for Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She got an ambiguous farewell where she sacrificed herself to save everyone else, making everyone believe she\u2019s dead. Mike (Finn Wolfhard) said he believed she was alive, living a peaceful life by a waterfall. She was shown onscreen with long hair, by a nature scene with rolling hills and waterfalls, which may or may not be real, or a product of Mike\u2019s wishful thinking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to still have it pretty gritty, but I wanted a romantic feel into it,\u201d the show\u2019s Emmy-nominated hair designer, Sarah Hindsgaul, told The Post.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Eleven in her final scene in \u201cStranger Things,\u201d by the waterfall.  <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2025<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Eleven in her final scene in \u201cStranger Things.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2025<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>In that final look of Eleven onscreen, her hair is longer than it\u2019s ever been before, and flowing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hindsgaul said that it showed \u201cwhat I have always hoped for Eleven \u2013 was that she was just going to be able to just be a girl. I wanted [her hair] to just be really pretty.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sadie Sink, who played Max, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTK5jR4DGox\/\">has said <\/a>she thinks Eleven is dead.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if she thinks the waterfall scene could have been real, Hindsgaul said, \u201cI hope it is. I think everybody [in the cast] has different feelings. I think it\u2019s a beautiful ending.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hit Netflix show first premiered in 2016, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/31\/entertainment\/did-steve-die-in-the-stranger-things-series-finale\/\">ended on New Year\u2019s Eve<\/a> after nearly a decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Millie Bobby Brown and Winona Ryder in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 5.  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Millie Bobby Brown, Sadie Sink, Noah Schnapp, Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 3.  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett Collection \/ Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The show followed Eleven, Will (Noah Schnapp), Nancy (Natalia Dyer), Steve (Joe Keery), Hopper (David Harbour) and more as they lived in Hawkins, Indiana, and dealt with threats from the sinister \u201cUpside Down.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Eleven saved the day, but her own fate was left up in the air. Everyone else went on to have nice lives, such as Steve becoming the local coach \/ sex ed teacher at the school, and Nancy becoming a newspaper reporter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think Eleven is necessarily very vain. I don\u2019t think she really cares. I think she\u2019s very utilitarian about her looks,\u201d said Hindsgaul.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 5.  <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2025<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 5.  <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2025<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSo when we see her this year, I wanted it to not be about hair. I wanted to take the hair out of it as much as possible. I think when she\u2019s practicing in the first couple of episodes, she\u2019s quite human\u2026..you can see that she has human flaws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in Season 5, when Eleven went into \u201cbattle mode,\u201d her hair was flat to her skull.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to bring her back as much as possible to Season 1. We needed to see that fragile girl again, somebody that can just stand kind of naked in front of us. There\u2019s a strength in that that is just undeniable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption> Millie Bobby Brown in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 1.  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett Collection \/ Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Linnea Berthelsen as Kali and Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 5.  <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2025<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Her utilitarian hairstyle also \u201cgives us a beautiful way to make her feminine and to give everybody what they want to see [after that], when we see her by the waterfalls,\u201d she explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brown never had much commentary about her hair, Hindsgaul said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[She] has always kind of gone with it. She\u2019s very brave like that, and is willing to not wear makeup and take her hair off,\u201d she told The Post. \u201cThat shows how brave the actress is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was dialed up to Eleven.\u00a0 Retro Netflix hit \u201cStranger Things\u201d recently ended after five seasons and ten years, giving nearly every character a happy ending \u2014 except for Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown).\u00a0 She got an ambiguous farewell where she sacrificed herself to save everyone else, making everyone believe she\u2019s dead. 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