Stranger Things’ Millie Bobby Brown ‘fell in love’ with Enola Holmes – the younger sister of famous detective Sherlock Holmes
- When her sister, Paige, introduced her to the Enola Holmes Mysteries series written by Nancy Springer, Millie Bobby Brown says she was ‘immersed by the story’
- Sherlock Holmes makes an appearance, but the film focuses on his sister Enola, a clever sleuth with no interest in what is traditionally expected of young women
Enola Holmes has been raised to believe she can do anything and be anyone. After the 16-year-old discovers that her mother has disappeared, she reunites with her estranged older brothers, Sherlock – the famous detective – and Mycroft, who are surprised to learn that Enola has not had the most traditional upbringing.
But when Mycroft decides Enola needs to be sent to a boarding school for a chance to be moulded into an acceptable member of society, she runs away to solve the mystery of their missing mother on her own.
“She’s trying to find who she is while being smothered by her famous last name, trying to find her mother and understand if she likes the boy,” says Millie Bobby Brown, the Emmy-nominated Stranger Things star who plays Enola and also produced the Netflix/Legendary Pictures film, which is now streaming.
“Everybody else wants to control her life, specifically men.”
Directed by Harry Bradbeer, the Emmy Award-winning director of Fleabag, Enola Holmes is based on the young-adult detective novel by Nancy Springer. The screenplay was adapted by prolific British writer Jack Thorne, whose credits include the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and the television series His Dark Materials .