Millie Bobby Brown shares her thoughts on THIS upside-down theory

stranger things Season 4 Part 1 ended on a big cliffhanger for our little heroine and this season’s big bad. We finally found out what happened at the Hawkins Laboratory in 1979. But fans were left with a burning question. Actress Millie Bobby Brown, who plays Eleven, shared her thoughts on a specific theory.

The final episode of Volume 1 revealed that Victor Creel’s son Henry was the keeper at Hawkins Lab who seemingly befriended Eleven. But it was all a way to manipulate her. Not only that, he’s also 001 and Vecna! Also, it was Eleven who sent him through a gate and created the monster. I’m still not over these shockers!

We know this season is meant to give us more answers about Upside Down, and we’ve already learned more about that in this first half of the episodes. But there are still so many questions and things that we don’t understand yet. One is whether Eleven just opened a gateway to the Upside Down, or whether she actually created the other dimension.

Millie Bobby Brown shares thoughts on the upside-down theory

In a recent interview with Variety, Brown was asked directly if her character created the other world or just opened the first gate. That’s the question we’ve all been asking ourselves!

The Elf actress said from what she understands and what she’s been told by the Duffer Brothers, the alternate universe under Hawkins has always been there.

I just think she has access to it. I don’t think she created Upside Down. No, I think it was always there, I think she just created a gateway to it that nobody could before.

Brown seems pretty sure of her answer. I think we’ll have to wait for season 4 volume 2 to see if the show directly answers that question for the audience.

And we still have so many left, how did the lab close the gate since that was four years before 1983 when season one was canceled? And why did sending Henry Creel/001 up the Upside Down make him the monster he is? These last two episodes can’t come soon enough!

stranger things Season 4 Part 2 will be released on Netflix on July 1st.