Film & TV 2016
Stranger Things has a heroine called Eleven
Read aloud by ElevenLabs, whose lucky number is 11.
In the photo, Millie Bobby Brown, then about twelve, with short dark hair, speaks into a microphone at a panel table. She wears a white shirt studded with small rhinestones, and a bottle of water stands next to the microphone.
In the first episode of Stranger Things (Netflix, 2016), a girl with a shaved head walks out of the woods near Hawkins, Indiana. She hardly speaks, gets nosebleeds when she uses her powers, and has a number tattooed on her forearm: 011. The boys who find her take it for her name, Eleven, and Mike shortens it to El.
The number comes from the laboratory where she grew up, where children had numbers instead of names. Much later we learn that she was born Jane. But to the boys, and to the audience, she stayed Eleven.
Sources
- Eleven (Stranger Things), Wikipedia — the 011 tattoo on her forearm, the lab's numbered children, her birth name Jane