What have David Harbour and Millie Bobby Brown said about each other in the past?

The relationship between David Harbour and Millie Bobby Brown has been thrown under a microscope this week, following claims they clashed on the set of Stranger Things.

Harbour, 50, plays Jim Hopper in the Netflix sci-fi series, a role for which he’s received two Emmy nominations, while Brown, 21, was catapulted to childhood fame when she burst onto screens as Eleven.

Despite Eleven being Hopper’s adopted daughter in the long-running programme, which drops its fifth and final season this month, it’s now been claimed that the actors were anything but pals during filming.

Over the weekend, reports emerged that Enola Holmes star Brown had complained about Harbour’s behaviour, resulting in an alleged internal investigation.

While Harbour’s name remains a strong presence in the media after ex-wife Lily Allen released her new album and accused him of infidelity, the latest harassment reports came as somewhat of a surprise, given he and Brown have repeatedly spoken positively about one another—publicly, at least.

What have David Harbour and Millie Bobby Brown said about each other in the past?

Harbour and Brown still follow one another on Instagram, which is leading fans to question what’s been going on behind the scenes.

What’s more, they’ve both praised the other actor in interviews.

Brown previously told Empire of her working relationship with her co-star: ‘David and I connected on another level.

He always looked out for me, and I always annoyed him like a daughter or a younger sister.

‘I was always trying to climb all over him, and he was always rolling his eyes and laughing at me.’

She went on to say: ‘I think that’s kind of how the El and Hopper relationship really started to develop in the show—it was mirroring our actual lives and our actual relationship.’

And from Harbour’s perspective, he, too, says he’s always had a paternal-style bond with his younger cast members, who are in their early twenties now.

‘They’re all pretty good kids,’ he praised to Esquire Spain when speaking about the likes of Brown, Ginn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, and Sadie Sink.

He added that he has high hopes for the futures of the talented ensemble: ‘I would love to see Gaten [Matarazzo] play King Lear when he’s 70 years old.

‘I would like to see those kinds of careers out of them.’

Regarding Brown specifically, in 2017, Harbour vowed to ‘protect’ her as she was thrust into the limelight at the tender age of 13.

‘I think she’s in the crosshairs of something extremely dangerous that nobody seems to be paying attention to’, he told People. ‘I think the developing mind, someone who gets this famous and has still a brain that is not fully developed, is an extremely difficult thing to navigate.’

Harbour added: ‘I hope that she gets the help that she needs. I know that I try to protect her as much as I can.’

He made the remarks as an onslaught of trolling was directed at Brown, who was forced to delete her Twitter account due to the online abuse.

Harbour went on to share his hopes that they would remain friends for years to come: ‘I want her to be an artist too; when I’m in the nursing home, she’ll bring me her Oscars, and I can look at them and stuff like that.’

Alleged harassment and bullying claims

Things took a turn at the start of November when it was reported that Brown had filed a harassment and bullying claim against Harbour before shooting began for the last season of Stranger Things.

It’s been said there were ‘pages and pages’ of accusations, with sources claiming that, after the filing, Brown ensured she had a personal representative accompany her on set for the whole of season 5.

‘The investigation went on for months,’ one source told The Mail on Sunday.

Insiders clarify that the alleged filing against Harbour does not involve any sexual misconduct.

At this time, Netflix has declined to comment publicly on the matter.

Neither Harbour’s nor Brown’s camp has addressed the allegations either.

In contrast, the streaming giant is keen to keep spirits high surrounding the build-up to Stranger Things’ conclusion.

‘It will be a theatrical event,’ a Netflix source said. ‘Nothing is going to overshadow this, not even the leading man’s private life.’

They added that ‘Netflix will never comment on an internal investigation, but the fact they’ve not denied it speaks volumes’.

‘Stranger Things helped put Netflix on the map,’ the insider claimed further.

‘Millions of fans around the world have been anticipating the finale. No one wants anything to take attention away from that.’

Harbour’s former partner Allen, who sings on her new record, West End Girl, about how his alleged gaslighting and sex addiction led to the demise of their marriage, has also remained silent on the reports.

But it’s been claimed that Harbour was ‘supported throughout it all’ by Allen, from whom his divorce was confirmed earlier this year.

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