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Millie Bobby Brown’s new blonde hair caused a stir online, and now she’s switching it up yet again — for a brief bit with Jimmy Fallon.
While on the Tuesday, March 11 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the 21-year-old Stranger Things star sat down for an interview — during which she discussed her marriage to Jon Bon Jovi’s son, Jake Bongiovi — and also participated in the “Slay It, Don’t Spray It” segment with Fallon, during which the actors competed against each other to see who could remember the most ’90s lyrics in a karaoke-style competition.
Because the game involved getting hosed in the face — if The Electric State star couldn’t finish the lyrics, she’d be sprayed in the face by water; if Fallon couldn’t, he would be — both stars had to wear black, thick-rimmed “safety glasses.”
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“Safety is sexy,” the 50-year-old late-night host noted, putting on the rectangular frames himself. As the camera panned to Brown, also clad in the glasses, the audience let out a few whoops and cheers.
Though the thick frames — which looked more like regular glasses than safety googles — were only for the game, they completely transformed Brown’s look, giving her glamorous ensemble an academic-like edge.
Over the past week, Brown has been candid about how critics have reacted to her new look — particularly those who say “she looks 40.”
On a new episode of Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast, the British star got real about the harsh criticism.
“You did meet me when I was 10,” she said, referring to her starring role on Stranger Things. “My face like, grew. What do you want me to do about that?” she asked. “I’m in a place where, yeah, my accent does change [from British to American]. My face does grow. I do wear a lot of makeup. It’s just the kind of person I am.”
Brown — who referred to the criticism as “standards and stigmas against girls” — urged the media to “learn how to speak to people, be kind and just understand that we’re all growing people, we all make mistakes.”