Millie Bobby Brown Fires Back at Photographer Telling Her to Smile and Walks Off ‘Stranger Things 5’ Red Carpet: ‘Smile? You Smile!’
Milly Bobby Brown clapped back at a photographer while posing on the red carpet at the “Stranger Things 5” premiere in London. When one of the photographers at the event yelled at Brown to smile for the cameras, the actor fired back: “Smile? You smile!” Brown then walked off the carpet.
Brown’s decision to stand up to the photographer recalls Chappell Roan, who made headlines last year year while walking the red carpet at the MTV Video Music Awards. Variety caught the moment on video where Roan responded to a yelling photographer who yelled at her to “shut the fuck up.” Roan responded: “You shut the fuck up.”
A few months later, Roan was walking the red carpet at the premiere of Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Guts World Tour” concert movie and called out another photographer who she remembered being rude to her. The pop star accused the photographer of “being disrespectful to me at the Grammys” and claimed he had “yelled” at her during a Grammys party. Roan asked for an apology from the photographer, saying she “deserve[s] an apology for that” and “you need to apologize to me.”
Denzel Washington was another notable celebrity who got into an altercation with a photographer this year. Things appeared to get tense between the Oscar winner and a pushy photographer on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet in May for Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest.” Video from the carpet showed Washington pointing his finger at a photographer and shouting at him to “stop.” As Washington approached, the photographer tried to laugh off the confrontation and put his hands around the actor’s arm. Washington pulled himself away and again told the photographer to stop.
Brown has been making the press rounds lately in support of “Stranger Things 5,” which is the final season of the blockbuster Netflix series. The first batch of episodes launch Nov. 26 on Netflix.
Millie Bobby Brown reacts to photographer telling her to “smile” at ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 London premiere:
“Smile? You smile!”
— Buzzing Pop (@BuzzingPop) November 14, 2025
