The teenager from Coventry who starred alongside Millie Bobby Brown in the hit Netflix film

A Coventry teenager who starred in a film alongside Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown has been inspired to expand her acting portfolio. Brooke Carter plays Princess Elodie’s younger sister Floria in Netflix’s Damsel.

Brooke, 14, who also starred in the Amazon TV series The Peripheral alongside Chloe Grace Moretz and the film The Alienist with Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning, began her acting career at the age of five.

“When I was two, my mother put me in dance and performance lessons and I got hooked on the stage and fell in love with it. I joined an acting agency when I was five, who accepted me on their books and I’m still with them now,” she said.

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Her agency put her forward for the audition for Damsel: “I went to London for the first tour and they called me back, then I met the director Juan and the casting director. I went again for the third time and they started calling me princess. Brooke, and one day my mom called me in the middle of school and I had to hide in the bathroom and she told me I got the job.

“I screamed and everyone looked at me and told most of my year group that I got the job with Millie Bobby Brown. I was full of madness because I didn’t think I was going to get it.”

Damsel took three months to shoot, two months in London at Pinewood Studios and a month in Portugal, which Brooke said was “so hot” in 30 degree weather wearing dresses all day.

“For my age, there were certain hours I could and couldn’t work because I had a set number of tutoring hours. During filming, they would tell me to do tutoring, but I caught up with the classes and when I was in the UK, I was going to school.”

She added that working with Millie was “so great” as Brooke described her as “one of the best actresses”.

“She was so nice to me on set and gave me lots of tips and tricks like if you feel uncomfortable in a scene you have to say it and say no if you’re not comfortable with what they ask you to do. I feel like that’s such an important thing to know because when I’m on set I don’t feel comfortable telling the director and the crew because I’m getting paid to work so I have to do what they say, but Millie has said. Just relax and don’t stress.”

Brooke says her dream actor to play alongside would be Jim Carrey as she thinks he is a “hilarious” actor and is a fan of the Grinch and he did well in the new Sonic movies. Her future plans are to star in a high school franchise film like “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before” and be cast in a Damsel sequel.

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