Despite naming GTA as her favourite video game ever, Millie Bobby Brown has insisted she doesn’t ‘break the rules’, to the point where she will stop at red lights.
While there’s plenty of online outrage over its lack of a real physical release, GTA 6 is going to sell extremely well regardless, especially if reported pre-order figures are accurate.
Even some celebrities have expressed excitement for the game. Last year, F1 champion Lewis Hamilton said he will be cancelling his work plans once GTA 6 launches.
Now, Stranger Things and Enola Holmes actress Millie Bobby Brown has shared her own love for the GTA series, while admitting she doesn’t play the games in the traditional sense.
During a Q&A session on the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast, one of the random questions Brown was asked was what her favourite video game of all time is.
‘GTA… It’s a passion,’ answered Brown, adding how excited she is for the new one; something that seems to catch the host by surprise, even though the GTA series is phenomenally popular worldwide.
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Brown doesn’t specify if she has a favourite entry in the series, although at 22 years old, she would’ve only been four when GTA 4 came out, so she’s probably thinking of GTA 5.
Regardless, what is surprising is that while the GTA games cast you as criminals, allowing you to steal cars and shoot people, Brown says she doesn’t ‘break the rules.’
‘I stop at the red lights, I never run anyone over… I’m like, ‘I’m gonna go to the strip club but I’m not going to get drunk.’ I’m very, very good,’ explained Brown.
We’re not sure how she can uphold that self-imposed limit and still progress the main story, but she seems to get around it by role-playing that she’s ‘not a hitman, I’m a vigilante.’
It’s a habit her husband, Jake Bongiovi, has already teased her about, apparently questioning why she plays GTA like it’s The Sims.
That’s an amusingly fitting comparison as Brown was made a Sims ambassador in 2018 and was added to The Sims 4 as herself. You can even still download her sim via EA’s website.
Brown’s Stranger Things character, Eleven, has also made appearances in Fortnite and Dead By Daylight but those games only use her likeness and while she does talk in the latter, she’s voiced by anime and video game voice actor Abby Espiritu instead of Brown.
Now that Brown’s love of GTA is public, maybe Rockstar will try and secure her for an appearance in either a GTA Online update or GTA 6’s inevitable online mode.
The GTA series is certainly no stranger to celebrity cameos, with GTA 5 and its online mode featuring appearances by the likes of Cara Delevingne, Kenny Loggins, and Dr Dre.
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