archive footage Jane Hopper (born Jane Ives), also known as Eleven, is a main character in Stranger Things. She is portrayed by Millie Bobby Brown. Revealed by the writers, El was originally going to mercy-kill her mother, Terry, in the second season. [37] On December 15, Eleven attended the Snow Ball along with Mike and her friends. After they reunited again, Mike stated that she looked beautiful and asked if she wanted to dance. She agreed and they danced together to the song "Every Breath You Take", and shared a kiss. However, in the Upside Down, a raging Mind Flayer loomed above the school, sensing Eleven on the other side. Hopper eventually found Eleven in the woods and began taking care of her, relocating her to his grandfather's old cabin. The two developed a complicated father-daughter dynamic as they lived together for almost a year. For her safety, Hopper neither permitted her leaving the cabin, nor did he permit her to communicate with Mike or her friends. Rob: Synthetic hair has more of a sheen to it than natural human hair, which is kind of something we're always trying to fight.

Eleven's relationship with Dr. Brenner mirrors the relationship between Elfen Lied's Diclonius Nana and Doctor Kurama, who both call their father figures 'papa'. After school, Dustin and Lucas returned to Mike's house, where Mike shared his theory that Eleven could help find Will. Lucas dismissed Mike, and decided to tell Mike's parents; however, as Lucas tried to leave Mike's room, Eleven telekinetically shut the door in front of Lucas's face while quietly uttering " no...", stunning him and and the other boys. Moments before he could do so, he was stopped by the group pelting him with fireworks. Meanwhile, El tried to escape, only to be prevented from doing so by Billy. Once the fireworks had run out, the Spider Monster tried again to possess El, only to be stopped by Billy, who was able to free himself from the creature’s control due to El reminding him of his time with his mother. However, the Spider Monster stabbed and brutally wounded Billy with his tentacles. At the same time, in the Russian base, Joyce activated the key which destroyed the Gate machine, resulting in the Gate being closed and Hopper apparently disintegrated. As a result of that, the Spider Monster’s link with the Mind Flayer severed and the monster ultimately meet his demise. El and Mike shared an embrace before comforting Max who mourned the loss of her stepbrother. Rob:We can use as many colors as we would like, upwards of five or six, depending on what we're creating, but at least three. So, here we're just painting on a root shadow to add a little bit of depth at the base of the wig.When applying the wig, the show's hair department head, Sarah Hindsgaul, had to make it sit naturally on top of Millie's armpit-length hair, which was all bundled up at the crown of her head. She didn't go with the traditional braiding method. That would've added bulk, risking a cocoon head effect.

Shortly after reuniting, El collapsed due to her leg; the group realised a piece of the Spider Monster was still lodged under her skin. After Jonathan attempted to cut it out with a knife, El opted to do it herself. Using a tremendous amount of power and force, she was able to remove the piece from her leg and throw it across the room. The piece was subsequently stepped on by Hopper, who had just arrived with Joyce and Murray. Before leaving for work the following morning, Hopper told Eleven he'd consider fixing the television if she cleaned up the mess she had made the night before. As she was sweeping, Eleven discovered a storage compartment hidden beneath the floorboards. There, she found a cardboard box containing documents from Hawkins Lab. Looking through the files, she discovered the name of her mother: Terry Ives. Using the Void, Eleven located Terry, who was able to recognize Eleven as her missing daughter, Jane. However, just as Eleven tried to reach out, Terry's apparition faded away. In the woods, Eleven took off her wig and despaired as she looked at her reflection in a pool of water, angrily sending ripples across the water with her powers. She later entered a supermarket to steal some food as she was hungry. As Eleven walked through the store, some people warily eyed her. When the store's manager tried talking to her, Eleven called him a "mouthbreather" and proceeded to steal some boxes of Eggos, which she had developed a great fondness for. The manager attempted to stop her thievery, but she walked out and broke the sliding glass doors using her powers, preventing the manager or anybody else from following her. Rob: These are a variety of stunt wigs we've created for photo doubles, stunt performers. They're cutting from a shot of the actor close up in the custom wig to the stunt performer shot from the side. The hair better look exactly the same as it did in the shot before.Hoping to recreate Henry Creel’s powers in other individuals, Dr. Martin Brenner, a researcher for the controversial government program "MKUltra", took what he had learned from Henry and adjusted his experimentations. The group commenced "Operation Mirkwood," where Eleven led them through the woods to find evidence relating to Will. She led them to the Byers house, but was unable to articulate that Will was there, but in the other dimension. Police cars raced by, and the group followed them to the quarry, where they saw what appeared to be Will's corpse being dragged out of the water. Feeling hurt and betrayed, and believing Eleven to be a liar, Mike lashed out at her and raced home on his bike. [9] The next day, El was given a tour and clarification by Brenner on what the Nina Project was capable for; reawakening an individual's memories by using video footage that Brenner took from the lab. He also explained to El that when she was bitten last year, her brain suffered a stroke which caused her incapable of using her powers. When El asked why she did not remember her time with the lab's other test subjects, she heard Brenner explain it was because her brain was protecting herself from traumatic memories she had in 1979. She was then advised by Brenner to re-experience each memory carefully or she and the entire Nina facility would suffer terrible consequences if she was not careful. In 1985, after living with Hopper for over a year, Eleven had come to see Hopper as her father. She remained close with him, even though he did not enjoy her spending so much time with Mike. After learning Hopper forced Mike to lie to her so they can start being distant, Eleven showed no anger towards Hopper, believing her adopted father was right as she had spied on Mike and his friends making comments on girls. When reunited with Hopper at Starcourt Mall, Eleven and Hopper had an emotional talk as they prepared to shut down the key and close the gate with their allies. Though Eleven wanted to help fight, she eventually agreed with Hopper to get safety as she now knew his protectiveness over her was out of love and concern while sharing an embrace with him. However, the defeat of the Mind Flayer's avatar, Eleven was saddened to discover Hopper was supposedly killed in the attempt to close the gate, resulting her to be taken in by the Byers family and move out of Hawkins.

While Eleven's age is never explicitly stated, it was mentioned that Terry had been looking for her daughter for twelve years, indicating she is 12 years old during the events of the first season, placing her birth in 1971, alongside the rest of the five kids. However, the book Suspicious Minds gives conflicts with what is suggested in the show, instead placing her birth in June 1970. I think they were so against it, and so nervous,” Hindsgaul laughs. “They were very scared when they came to the set and were ready to say no.” When they saw the wig with their own eyes, they were impressed enough to put it on camera. “They were like, ‘OK, we’ll do a real camera test. It actually looks pretty decent. It might work.’ ” Hopper was able to adopt Eleven through a forged birth certificate given to him by Dr. Owens. This allowed Eleven to enter mainstream society without fear, which led to her pursuing a relationship with Mike that continued and prospered into the summer of 1985. Hopper, however, grew increasingly irritated with the relationship, threatening Mike and forcing him to stop seeing Eleven. This caused Eleven to break up with Mike, but they later reconciled after Mike explained the situation. During the battle against the Spider Monster, Mike saved Eleven's life various times; when her leg was seriously injured, he helped her walk and took care of her. After Hopper's apparent death, Eleven and the Byers moved to Lenora Hills under Dr. Owens' supervision. Before leaving, El and Mike made plans to see each other at Thanksgiving and Christmas, but sadly had to say goodbye as the Byers departed. After getting trapped in the Upside Down, she manipulated a temporary gate that the Demogorgon had opened, widening it enough for her to crawl through. Rob: Reds can be quite the nightmare sometimes. If we create a red wig and they put a blue filter over the entire thing, it could look brown. A lot of our job is alchemy, and color theory, and figuring out how that's going to play in the final product.

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She's also absent for the majority of The Mind Flayer, only appearing in the last half minute before the credits. Upon Eleven's return in 1984, she helped to disrupt the Mind Flayer's possession of Will, while also closing the Gate. Narrator: For "The First Lady," the team used the same technique on the six wigs Rob made for Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford. When trying to locate Dustin in "The Bite", she opens up the freezer doors inside Bradley's Big Buy, sitting behind shelves of Eggos.