Millie Bobby Brown told Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday how she punked a videographer who tried to crash her final dress fitting. (Watch the video below.)
The “Stranger Things” star said a “tabloid person” armed with a camcorder-like device began repeating her name “Millie, Millie, Millie” and was clearly intent on capturing the moment.
“The Electric State” actor was trying on her gown of choice for real in New York City as she prepared to marry model Jake Bongiovi, son of rocker Jon Bon Jovi, last year. But she feared that a window wasn’t blocking the view enough. Concerned that the snoop would spoil the surprise for the groom and others, Brown said she summoned her acting skills for a ruse to take the paparazzo off the scent.
Slyly playing for the camera, Brown said she pretended to pick another dress “that was the complete opposite” ― a bedazzled number. Then she put on a convincing performance in which she cried and gushed in happiness that she had found THE DRESS as she modeled the decoy ensemble in the mirror.
The woman “got the whole thing and it sold, and she thought she got some .. well let me tell you right how it definitely wasn’t and I tricked you!” Brown boasted.
“What great acting,” Fallon said.
“It was the best of my career,” she said.
He has video of her devious star turn and, like Fallon said, it’s Oscar-worthy. Check it out during her anecdote starting at 2:18: