Millie Bobby Brown has flown her “dear friend” Tom Cruise‘s helicopter.
Millie Bobby Brown is friends with Tom Cruise
The Stranger Things actress has compared herself to the Mission: Impossible star because she likes to get involved in her own stunt work, just as Tom famously does, and she’s revealed he is very encouraging of her trying ne things.
Asked if she knows Tom during an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Millie said: “He’s a dear friend. He’s a wonderful man and I’m very lucky to call him my friend.
“Tom does the craziest stuff. I think he’s trying to get me to somehow fly a plane at some point.
“[I’ve actually] flown his helicopter before.
“I was like, ‘This is the last time I ever fly any of his equipment.”
The 22-year-old star admitted it is a “thrilling experience” for her to do her own stunts in her movies and she hopes other actresses will be encouraged to do the same.
She said: “I really want young girls to think they can, you know? You’ll always hear an older actor say, ‘Don’t do your own stunts,’ and I get that.
“But back in the day, they might have been throwing you against a wall, and now, if you get a really great stunt coordinator and you learn how to land and you learn the whole technique of it, we as actors should know how to do certain things.”
She joked: “I try to do 90% and the 10% is probably, you know, in my contract that I’m not allowed, even though I beg.”
Millie is currently promoting her latest movie, Enola Holmes 3, and she is “really proud” to play the titular detective.
She said: “I’m really proud to be able to bring [Enola] to screen. Especially when young girls come up to me and say how much they love her.”
Millie previously told how she felt like “the female version of Tom Cruise” when discussing doing her own stunts for Damsel.
She told talk show host Drew Barrymore: “You’re just like, ‘Am I really gonna do that stunt?’ And then that day they’re like, ‘Yep, put the harness on,’ and I just, like, did the stunt as if it wasn’t, you know, Tom Cruise–level stuff. I felt like Tom Cruise.”
When Drew praised the Top Gun actor as “the coolest”, Millie agreed: “So cool. In this film, I feel like the female version of Tom Cruise.”
“I did all my own stunts from start to finish. And I’m really scared about doing my own stunts. Stunts are scary. … You’re just like, ‘I’m not physically trained to do this.’ “
