Millie Bobby Brown doesn’t mind letting her accent “morph.”
The British actress defended sounding American around her husband Jake Bongiovi’s family in Monday’s “SmartLess” podcast episode.
When co-host Sean Hayes gushed about how “cool” it was that Brown, 21, was going “in and out” of her accent during the interview, she reflected on that being a “huge thing for a minute” online.
“I actually call it ‘The Accent Gate,’” the Emmy nominee said. “It’s so frustrating because that was everywhere for a second. Everyone was talking about my accent, and they had a real problem about it.”
Brown reminded listeners that she is “married to an American,” who is Jon Bon Jovi’s son.
“When I’m around his family, I immediately go into an American accent,” the “Stranger Things” star noted. “But then I was just in England, and the second I hear my mum and dad’s accents, I go right back into it.”
Brown added, “You want me to be an actor and you want me to play these characters, but you expect me not to morph into people?
“What I hear, I do that,” she explained. “It’s all part of it.”
The Florence by Mill creator, who wed Bongiovi, 22, in May 2024, gushed about her relationship with her famous father-in-law elsewhere in the interview.
Although Brown and the rocker, 63, “deal with [their] separate things” in the public eye, he is “always there for” her.
“He’s so informative,” she said. “His wisdom is ridiculous. Such a great person.”
While the “Electric State” star did not address her current predicament — trolls claiming she looks “old” — she did describe her social media boundaries.
“I have a hard time,” she said. “Someone else does it for me. I take a picture and send it to someone, and they’ll post it for me.”
Brown insisted she does not mind being “out of the loop.”
The “Enola Holmes” star, notably, hit back at haters in an Instagram video last week, specifically calling out journalists by name for “bullying” her appearance.
“I refuse to apologize for growing up,” she said at the time. “I refuse to make myself smaller to fit the unrealistic expectations of people who can’t handle seeing a girl become a woman.
“I will not be shamed for how I look, how I dress, or how I present myself,” Brown continued. “Let’s do better.”
In January, the “Damsel” star told her Instagram followers that “women grow” and she is “not sorry about it” amid negative comments comparing her to a “40-year-old Jersey housewife.”
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