If acting ever stops working out, Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown could always have a career as a psychic.
The 22-year-old has revealed she’s convinced she was once a closeted gay soldier who met a gruesome end after being killed with a sword through the spine.
Honestly, if someone pitched that to HBO tomorrow, it’d probably get two seasons and an Emmy campaign.
Brown made the surprising confession during an interview with Capital Buzz alongside her Enola Holmes 3 co-star Louis Partridge, after the pair began discussing past lives.
Unlike the rest of us, who might vaguely wonder if we were once a Victorian chimney sweep or an unusually confident pigeon, Millie appears to have narrowed it down with remarkable certainty.
‘Oh, I actually know exactly who I was,’ she declared.
‘I have a birthmark on my lower back, the very bottom of my spine, which is obviously meant to be the way that you died in your past life.’
Millie then unveiled a surprisingly detailed theory about medieval battlefield executions. ‘In war… to kill people but make them have a painful death, they would put swords up people’s spines,’ she explained.
‘So they were completely paralysed, but they would obviously kind of die, and that’s how I think I died.’
From there, she pieced together the rest of her former identity. ‘I think I might have been a soldier.’
But she wasn’t quite finished building the biography. ‘Definitely a man,’ she concluded, before adding: ‘Hopefully a closeted gay man.’
Exactly which war this may have taken place in remains a mystery. Millie didn’t specify a century, kingdom or army, although the sword clue does at least narrow it down slightly.
Louis, meanwhile, wasn’t quite as convinced.
When asked whether he knew who he’d been in a previous life, the actor simply replied: ‘No, I don’t believe in past lives.’
Millie accepted defeat with admirable efficiency.
‘Okay, well, that ends that then.’
The conversation eventually moved from reincarnation to the afterlife itself, with Brown revealing she believes people go to heaven after they die.
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The actress is at least no stranger to wielding swords in this lifetime.
Last year she starred in Netflix fantasy film Damsel, playing a princess who discovers she’s been offered up as a dragon’s dinner by the royal family before fighting back with, among other things, a sword.
Perhaps it all felt strangely familiar.
Whether or not Millie really was a sword-wielding soldier in another existence, she’s certainly managed something much rarer in this one: making Louis Partridge momentarily look like the most grounded person in the room.