Millie Bobby Brown and Louis Partridge Get Weird

Millie Bobby Brown and Louis Partridge have been playing Enola Holmes and Lord Tewkesbury since 2020, which means their on-screen romance has now spanned three films, a wedding, and a kidnapping, all while their real-life friendship has built into something that looks a lot like trust. With Enola Holmes 3 sending the detective to Malta to rescue her brother Sherlock right as she’s supposed to be walking down the aisle, the two stars turned the tables and interviewed each other, and things got weird fast, volleying through questions about imposter syndrome, the exact moment they first believed in one another, and goat dung.

 

FRIDAY 3:40 PM JUNE 26, 2026 NEW YORK CITY

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LOUIS PARTRIDGE: I like Interview Magazine.

MILLIE BOBBY BROWN: I was on the cover once.

PARTRIDGE: I interviewed someone.

BROWN: Oh, I also interviewed someone and then I got interviewed by Drew Barrymore for mine.

PARTRIDGE: I interviewed Finneas. We had a really good chat. He said I was loquacious.

BROWN: Oh, nice. Okay, I’ll start. What’s the first memory you have of realizing you actually trusted me?

PARTRIDGE: I trusted you pretty quickly based off our initial meeting in the audition room at Spotlight, which is where we had our first audition. You were very calm. You didn’t know your lines. You were holding a piece of paper, which always makes me feel a bit better. It’s like, “Okay, she’s messing up. I can afford to as well.” But I found you very easy to trust rightly or wrongly. What’s the first memory you have realizing you trusted me, if you trust me?

BROWN: You came over to my house and you met my nan and you were so nice to her. I’ll never forget that because it’s like a friend for life, somebody who’s able to just come over, hang out. It was the first film. You helped her outside of the garden.

PARTRIDGE: Cute.

BROWN: I just felt like, “Oh, this guy’s really going to be a great friend and, therefore, a great co-star.”

PARTRIDGE: That was before we started filming.

BROWN: What’s a version of yourself that existed before all of this that you miss?

PARTRIDGE: I’d like to think I’m growing into the better version of myself as time goes by, but I certainly had a lack of self-consciousness when I was younger. 

BROWN: Do you miss that though?

PARTRIDGE: You feel invincible. I do miss that. It’s like being in the Garden of Eden.

BROWN: I really wish sometimes I could feel the way I felt when I acted when I was in anything under 14. I genuinely didn’t care. I was just having the best time. I wasn’t thinking about playback or awards or pressure or audience or, “Is this going to make money?” Now it’s just adult things that you think about.

PARTRIDGE: As you get older again, you become more like a kid. I look at my grandma and she doesn’t care. That’s kind of awesome.

BROWN: But it’s kind of amazing how we come into the world like that and then we go out of the world like that.

PARTRIDGE: It’s what happens in the meantime.

BROWN: That’s probably the most stressful part.

PARTRIDGE: When did you stop feeling like you were faking it, and started feeling like you actually belong here? Do you suffer from imposter syndrome at all?

BROWN: I don’t. I mean,  I went through a phase where I was a bit worried because everybody had a process and I was like, “Do I have a process with acting?” And then I realized, “I do have a process,” and it was just very small habits that I was picking up on, and I became more secure as an actor. Just because I’m not method for 24 hours, I’m still an actor. I still do have a process, it’s just not the same as everyone else’s.

PARTRIDGE: I guess no two processes are the same. But do you have a good idea of what your process is?

BROWN: Yeah. And I do become the character on and off-screen and I can’t shake them for about a month.

PARTRIDGE: I aspire to be like that. I think my best performances are ones where I’ve shed a part of myself.

BROWN: I felt like that with Eleven. I really shed a part of myself away forever.

PARTRIDGE: Really? Forever?

BROWN: I don’t necessarily think I’ll ever be the same. What’s something you’ve watched or read recently that made you want to be better at what you do?

PARTRIDGE: Most films I watch I feel that way towards when I see a performance, someone that looks like they’re unpredictable, like they’re living through something. I watched A Real Pain recently for the first time and thought that was brilliant. I found a book of letters called Letters of Note and it’s about 150 completely random letters over the course of history, like ones from Queen Elizabeth detailing her recipe for scones. The other is Virginia Woolf’s letter to her husband before she killed herself.

BROWN: Why do you keep talking about random fucking things?

PARTRIDGE: Let me finish, because it says, “This book contains the plethora of human experience and emotion,” and it’s funny and silly and then completely heart-wrenching, and I find that truly inspiring.

BROWN: Inspiring to bring that to screen for yourself. I respect that.

PARTRIDGE: Yeah, you seem like you do.

BROWN: No, I genuinely do. I just thought you were going on a tangent and my neck started to hurt. Go on. Ask me one.

PARTRIDGE: What is the strangest thing about being in a love story with someone you’re actually friends with? I don’t think that’s that strange. 

BROWN: Maybe that we’re friends, so when you have to be intimate. I naturally want to make fun of you so then I can’t giggle or laugh at you because we’re in a scene. But sometimes it’s hard because you naturally just banter with each other.

PARTRIDGE: That’s good though.

BROWN: I had the same issue with my co-star now where when we act together, most of the time we’re making fun of each other.

PARTRIDGE: You just crack up.

BROWN: What’s a hill you’ll absolutely die on that the other person will think is ridiculous?

PARTRIDGE: That’s quite dramatic. I’ve got some hot takes, but I’m not dying on many hills.

BROWN: Go on.

PARTRIDGE: I think that tea from a teapot is such a lovely idea, but I don’t think it actually tastes as nice as tea just in a mug, and I wish I’d liked it more. I’m currently questioning whether the album is the best way to listen to music because an album requires three to four listens to understand what’s going on.

BROWN: I completely agree with that.

PARTRIDGE: In this day and age, who’s listening to albums all the way through?

BROWN: Unless you’re really an artist.

PARTRIDGE: Because realistically when I listen to an album, I remember the first three songs, and the last two songs. I’ll be out doing something and I’ll forget them and blur into one. Unless you’re focusing, you lose the magic. Anyway, you got any hot takes?

BROWN: Too many.

PARTRIDGE: I believe that. What’s something you pretend to have seen or read that you haven’t? Or is there anything you’re embarrassed to not have seen?

BROWN: Plenty of things. The Shawshank Redemption.

PARTRIDGE: You’ve seen Game of Thrones?

BROWN: Yeah.

PARTRIDGE: Breaking Bad?

BROWN: Yeah. I haven’t seen Lord of the Rings. Have you?

PARTRIDGE: Yep.

BROWN: Lie.

PARTRIDGE: No.

BROWN: Lie. What’s the most unglamorous thing about your day-to-day life?

PARTRIDGE: It’s pretty glamorous. I’m not a great chef and the state of the plate or whatever I put on it is pretty unglamorous. I adopt a kind of nutrients-style approach. If it’s going to be good for me, that’s great. If it tastes good, that’s a bonus, but that’s not the primary consideration.

BROWN: For me, I would say mucking out a stable.

PARTRIDGE: What does that involve?

BROWN: Shoveling shit.

PARTRIDGE: Actual shit?

BROWN: Yeah, horse.

PARTRIDGE: I quite like the smell of old shit.

BROWN: I mean, sometimes it can smell like a fresh garden.

PARTRIDGE: If you had to eat any animals’ dung, what would it be? 

BROWN: Dung is crazy.

PARTRIDGE: I’m making it sound more palatable. “Just a bit of dung.”

BROWN: Out of every animal, it’d have to be a goat because it’s that big. 

PARTRIDGE: I’d go rabbit.

BROWN: What outfit from a role do you wish you could keep wearing in real life? I know the answer for you. Sid Vicious.

PARTRIDGE: Ding, ding, ding. There’s a Vivian Westwood T-shirt that has a pair of tits on it.

BROWN: Try and guess mine.

PARTRIDGE: You love that Eleven swimsuit.

BROWN: I hate that Eleven swimsuit.

PARTRIDGE: No, I think you’d choose something of Enola’s.

BROWN: Nothing from Enola.

PARTRIDGE: What else have you been in? I joke. 

BROWN: I like my last look in Damsel, but I’d say a lot of my romance movie outfits.

PARTRIDGE: The movie that isn’t out yet, you’re expecting me to get one of those.

BROWN: Yeah, because I showed you the reel for it.

PARTRIDGE: Just Picture It, out in cinemas soon.

BROWN: Not out in cinemas. On Netflix.

PARTRIDGE: What’s a talent that you have that has absolutely nothing to do with acting?

BROWN: I know how to make clothes.

PARTRIDGE: Is that true?

BROWN: Yeah.

PARTRIDGE: You’ve never mentioned that before. What clothes?

BROWN: I make baby onesies and hats and bonnets.

PARTRIDGE: Out of what?

BROWN: Out of fabric. I have a whole sewing room in my house.

PARTRIDGE: Do you do adult sizes?

BROWN: I only embroider on adult things, but I don’t sew adult things yet. I’m mostly interested in making things for my daughter.

PARTRIDGE: That’s gorgeous.

BROWN: If you could only listen to one album for the rest of your life, what are you choosing and why?

PARTRIDGE: That’s such a shame because you would grow to hate it, so maybe I choose something that I don’t like right now, but I could spend the rest of my life trying to like it. I’m going to say some Rachmaninoff piano concerto because the songs are long and I could find different bits in different parts.

BROWN: Lies, lies, lies.

PARTRIDGE: Okay, fine. Teenage Dream by Katy Perry. What would yours be?

BROWN: I love Lemonade. 

PARTRIDGE: What’s that?

BROWN: Beyoncé.

PARTRIDGE: If you could see one artist alive or dead in concert, who would it be?

BROWN: Amy Winehouse.

PARTRIDGE: Such a good answer. If you could only eat one cuisine for the rest of your life, what would it be?

BROWN: Try and guess.

PARTRIDGE: Italian?

BROWN: No.

PARTRIDGE: Japanese?

BROWN: No.

PARTRIDGE: American?

BROWN: No.

PARTRIDGE: What are the other options?

BROWN: Tabouleh.

PARTRIDGE: Oh, Lebanese. That’s a fantastic choice, mate.

BROWN: I feel like I’m going to stay healthy. I love the way it makes me feel after I eat it. I never feel heavy.

PARTRIDGE: That’s true.

BROWN: Can I guess yours? Italian?

PARTRIDGE: No.

BROWN: Chinese?

PARTRIDGE: No.

BROWN: Indian?

PARTRIDGE: No.

BROWN: French?

PARTRIDGE: I think so.

BROWN: I love escargot, but what is considered French food?

PARTRIDGE: I mean, you’ve got baguette, croissant, pastries.

BROWN: Yeah, but what are you having for dinner?

PARTRIDGE: If you want to treat yourself, duck leg confit and then all the wines you could possibly want. Or you could have steak frites. I mean, they’ve got great breakfast. Potato dauphinoise is one of my favorite things. It can be quite heavy, so I think I might shift to a Mediterranean-based diet.

BROWN: Copycat. What do you do when a scene isn’t working and you can’t figure out why?

PARTRIDGE: That’s a really good question. I usually blame myself and it doesn’t help the matter. Ideally, talk to the director and hope that they drop an idea in your head that changes the way you approach it. But usually, it’s because you’re too focused on the wrong details and you forget that the audience has no idea what’s happening next in each moment, and you’re trying to prescribe the way that the scene is going to go. Something I’m thinking about quite a lot recently is that this isn’t the medium for getting it right. All you can do is follow intuition and be brave about it. What do you do?

BROWN: I take a look at the writing. I start with, “Is it something that’s coming out of my mouth that doesn’t feel right?” And then I take a look at the environment and think, “Could we do this outside? Should I be over here?”

PARTRIDGE: Because that can be the difference. A director could say, “Okay. You’re rushing to get out of the house because you’ve just had a call that your friend needs your help,” and all of a sudden you have something to do and the scene has completely changed. That can take your mind off what you’re doing and give you something else to work with. Or even, “Imagine it’s boiling hot in the room or freezing cold.”

BROWN: Changes it for sure.

PARTRIDGE: Would you ever want to direct?

BROWN: I think so, but not now.  I’m not ready yet.

PARTRIDGE: Do you think you could direct me?

BROWN: Though you’re easy to direct, I’m sure, we’re friends so I’m not sure how that would work.

PARTRIDGE: I think you could do it.

BROWN: What’s the question you were hoping no one would ask you today, Louis?

PARTRIDGE: Obviously, I’m not going to offer it up myself.  Have you got one?

BROWN: Do I like the song “Imagine” by John Lennon? I do like it. Does it haunt me? Yes, it does. Forever.

PARTRIDGE: I see what you’re referencing. Real ones know.