\u201cAnd you can just sort of skip past it which I actually found was really nice that I could actually have a place with a bit of normality.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nell was around 12 when filming Stranger Things Season 5, turning 14 during production in 2024. She took over the role of Holly Wheeler from younger actresses to play a bigger, more central part.<\/p>\n
Landing the role was pure \u201cserendipity\u201d as Nell wore her hair in pigtails to look younger for her audition, and it just so happened to be Holly Wheeler\u2019s signature style.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cWhen I was doing the audition I was meant to be 10 years old and I was 11 when I auditioned, I find that when I put my hair up in pig tails it makes me look younger.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I didn\u2019t know is that that\u2019s actually Holly\u2019s signature look so it was a bit of Serendipity. After the audition, I had a Zoom call with the Duffers, they explained that the part was Holly and I still didn\u2019t quite get how big the part was, then I read the script and was like wow. It was all pretty incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before auditioning, Nell had never watched Stranger Things \u2013 because her mother, Laura Clarke, a British diplomat, thought the sci-fi series was too frightening for her young daughter.<\/p>\n
She admitted: \u201cI have been lobbying to watch it for a long time, but my mum claimed that it would be too scary, she meant it would be too scary for her! But then I got this audition and it was like \u2026 so first of all, \u2018Oh I could be in Stranger Things, that\u2019s exciting.\u2019 But my main thought was \u2018OK, I now get to watch it!\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I just started and I didn\u2019t stop and I went all the way from one to four and I just remember thinking what an amazing show it was and how incredible it would be to be on it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAnd you can just sort of skip past it which I actually found was really nice that I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[192,536,307,156,36090,97757,1445,78,132520,111,139,69,312,4062,20863,5436,24002,1361,6035,13794],"class_list":["post-220132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-are","tag-care","tag-dont","tag-entertainment","tag-fisher","tag-fishers","tag-friends","tag-in","tag-nell","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-says","tag-school","tag-she","tag-stars","tag-stranger","tag-that","tag-things","tag-unimpressed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}