Why Producing Felt Natural for Millie Bobby Brown
Millie Bobby Brown explains why she returned as a producer on Enola Holmes 2 for Netflix, saying it felt natural to her creative process.
Millie Bobby Brown explains why she returned as a producer on Enola Holmes 2 for Netflix, saying it felt natural to her creative process. Based on the first book in Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes Mysteries series, The Case of the Missing Marquess, and released on Netflix in 2020, Enola Holmes quickly became one of the streaming service's most-watched original films. The story shifts the focus from the already-famous detective Sherlock Holmes to his equally brilliant younger sister, Enola, who embarks on a thrilling adventure to find her missing mother by teaming up with a runaway lord, Viscount Tewkesbury.
Stranger Things star Brown returns to lead the Enola Holmes 2 cast as the titular detective alongside the DCEU's Superman actor Henry Cavill as her older brother, Sherlock. The returning cast also includes Helena Bonham Carter as Eudoria, Louis Partridge as Tewkesbury, Adeel Akhtar as Lestrade, and Susie Wokoma as Edith. Two prominent newcomers include Harry Potter's David Thewlis and Dune's Sharon Duncan-Brewster. The first film's writer and director, Jack Thorne and Harry Bradbeer, have also returned for the sequel. Enola Holmes 2 kicked off production in the fall of 2021 and wrapped filming earlier this year.
During an appearance on First We Feast's Hot Ones series in which guests are challenged to eat progressively spicier chicken wings while answering questions, Brown discussed why she decided to return as a producer on Enola Holmes 2. Brown says producing felt natural to her creative process, allowing her to "create on and off camera" by making changes to the script and having an input in the post-production process as well. Read what she shared below:
Producing producing felt really natural to me because I could still create on and off camera, so I could go on to set and do my thing but also creatively change the script and go into editing and it was a really cool position and it actually made me feel the most comfortable I felt in any set situation because I felt like I could express myself fully in my creative process.
The Stranger Things star produced the first Enola Holmes film at 16-years-old alongside her older sister, Paige Brown, and three other co-producers, who have all returned for the sequel. Not much is known about the sequel's story, but a brief Enola Holmes 2 synopsis released earlier this year by Netflix reveals that Brown's titular sleuth will follow in her big brother's footsteps and become a detective-for-hire. The sequel will find Enola taking on her first official case to find a missing girl, which unearths a more dangerous conspiracy afoot.
It has been speculated that Enola Holmes 2 will adapt the second book in the series, The Case of the Left-Handed Lady. Since Springer's series currently spans seven books, Netflix's adaptation will have plenty of source material to work with if the sequel continues to do well and they decide to continue the series. In that case, Brown could be the face of Enola Holmes for many more years to come, while also overseeing the series creatively as a producer.
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Source: First We Feast
