{"id":35127,"date":"2022-06-03T15:11:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T15:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/stranger-things-duffer-brothers-on-wills-sexuality-elevens-origins\/"},"modified":"2022-06-03T15:11:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T15:11:08","slug":"stranger-things-duffer-brothers-on-wills-sexuality-elevens-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/stranger-things-duffer-brothers-on-wills-sexuality-elevens-origins\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things’ Duffer Brothers on Will’s Sexuality, Eleven’s Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"
SPOILER ALERT:<\/strong> Do not read if you have not yet watched \u201cThe Massacre at Hawkins Lab,\u201d the Volume 1 finale episode of \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 4.<\/em><\/p>\n The second part of \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 4 will debut in less than a month. But what member of the Hellfire Club can wait that long for answers to all the questions posed by the shocking Volume 1 finale, and its major reveal that Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) created the Upside Down and the big bad Vecna, by locking One ( Jamie Campbell Bower) inside the supernatural realm.<\/p>\n “Stranger Things” creators Matt and Ross Duffer, professionally known as the Duffer Brothers, weren’t willing to spill on everything just yet when speaking with Variety<\/em> to talk about the first seven episodes of Season 4 on Thursday – but they gave us plenty to go on until Volume 2 debuts July 1.<\/p>\n How old is One supposed to be by the time his scenes with Eleven in the Rainbow Room occurred?<\/strong><\/p>\n Matt Duffer:<\/strong> Oh, my God. That’s a great question.<\/p>\n Ross Duffer:<\/strong> We have done the math, it’s been a while.<\/p>\n MD:<\/strong> It’s been like two-and-a-half years since I did the math.<\/p>\n RD:<\/strong> I feel like he was late 20s?<\/p>\n MD:<\/strong> 29, I believe<\/p>\n RD:<\/strong> We did all the math, it does add up.<\/p>\n MD:<\/strong> We’re not good at math, but we have people in our room who are good at math and I’m fairly confident the math holds up. But if someone on Reddit is saying otherwise, they could be right.<\/p>\n I feel like it’s early 30s?<\/strong><\/p>\n MD:<\/strong> That could be right, that’s how old Jamie is.<\/p>\n RD:<\/strong> Late 20s \/ early 30s, I can’t remember where we landed. But we did do the math.<\/p>\n At what point in the timeline does Eleven create the Upside Down in relation to when the series starts?<\/strong><\/p>\n RD:<\/strong> You’re hitting us with these! Again, we’ve done the math. I think she’s a few …<\/p>\n MD:<\/strong> She’s 9, and we meet her when she’s actually 11; Eleven is 11. So what you’re seeing in these flashbacks is actually two years prior to the flashbacks that you’re seeing in Season 1. Because I remember when we were doing the Young Eleven visual effects, we did send them Season 1 stuff , but we also sent them stuff from [when Millie Bobby Brown was on] “Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.” When we did the math, that’s the age she really should be in those flashbacks. So we sent a lot of \u201cOnce Upon a Time\u201d videos to our visual effects team.<\/p>\n RD:<\/strong> I’m very familiar with Millie’s performance in “Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.”<\/p>\n This is purely me trying to figure out if this is something I didn’t understand or catch – but why did time in the Upside Down freeze on the day Will was taken by the demogorgon and why hasn’t it started back up?<\/strong><\/p>\n MD:<\/strong> That is a very good question. That is actually one of the few questions that we’ve raised this season that isn’t going to get answered in Volume 2. But that’s setting the stage for some big reveals in our final season. We’ve said this before, but Netflix, midway through Season 1, they went, “Can you just please explain to us what the Upside Down is, and where these monsters are coming from – all of this stuff?” So we wrote this document – we spent like a week with our writers just writing out all the mythology and that really is where we really defined what the Upside Down was and where these monsters were coming from and what it all meant. And so this season, we are giving the audience a lot of information, but there’s still mysteries about the Upside Down, and that is a big one. But we really wanted to hint at it this season because it’s going to play such a huge role moving\u2026<\/p>\n RD:<\/strong> You do learn more in Volume 2.<\/p>\n MD:<\/strong> I’m sure someone on Reddit will figure it out based on what they see in Volume 2.<\/p>\n RD:<\/strong> It’s not explicitly stated, the answer to your question, but we do know the answer.<\/p>\n So, I did not miss anything?<\/strong><\/p>\n MD: No, you’re not supposed to know. It’s a great question.<\/p>\n Is there a reason Eleven’s speech patterns are inconsistent and vary from the other kids in Brenner’s program?<\/strong><\/p>\n MD:<\/strong> Oh, are you talking about her speech pattern in Season 1?<\/p>\n Yes. Why, in relation to the other kids in the program, does she seem to have a harder time speaking? And if there’s a reason we’re supposed to understand for why Eleven is kind of not socialized the same way, or speaking the same as the other kids?<\/strong><\/p>\n MD:<\/strong> Well, she is<\/em> being socialized the same way with the other children and then she goes into – and she does not remember any of this – she goes into, you learn a little bit more about this in Volume 2, I guess I’m revealing a little bit, but she goes into a coma, reawakens, has no memory of these events and then is raised in total isolation by Brenner, who doesn’t dare bring in another number, for fear of this happening again. So he chooses to focus solely on her. She lives in alone, in an isolated room. This is the Eleven that we meet in Season 1. Two years in isolation and really limited memories of what had happened to her. And so that’s one reason for the speech.<\/p>\n