Outside of Eleven's shag and micro-bangs hairstyle, we see her in her signature buzz cut, which has everyone wondering: did Brown really shave her head again for the new season? Hindsgaul divulged she didn't.
"That is a buzz-cut wig," Hindsgaul confirms, which she adds is very difficult to pull off. "Normally, you would do that with a bald cap and then putting a wig over it, but we're very limited on time."
Hindsgaul had to get innovative to figure out a solution for bringing back Eleven's infamous shaved head, and it almost didn't happen. "But I couldn't let it go — it's just such an important moment for the story," she says.
The first challenge was getting Brown's hair flat enough to be hidden by a wig, but that wasn't all. "If there's too much hair anywhere, it would look like a hat — you wouldn't be able to see that scalp through it, and that looks fake. If it was too little hair, you could just see the stitching."
After spending a lot of time thinking on it — and "laying awake at night, studying Millie's hairline" — Hindsgaul and her wig maker came up with a solution. "We ended having three different layers of silks inside," she says. This helped camouflage Brown's real hair while making the wig look real.