12-Year-Old 'Stranger Things' Star Didn't Know What a Record Player Was

The spooky, sci-fi-shaded Stranger Things is the latest Netflix series to slowly overtake the Internet after an inconspicuous debut, and deservedly so. Set in 1983, it scratches all the right nostalgia itches (Stephen King, Steven Spielberg, E.T., The Goonies, John Carpenter, synths on synths) while being professionally modern in its execution and production values. The performances are on fire throughout, but the ones we'll be remembering a decade from now are the middle school-aged kids played by Finn Wolfhard (what a name!), Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin and Millie Bobby Brown.

The latter plays a supernaturally gifted/enhanced government testing facility escapee simply called Eleven. She rarely speaks—almost entirely silent at the outset—so hearing the actress riffing with the press is just delightful. At a Television Critics Association panel yesterday in California, Brown dropped a fun bombshell: She was unfamiliar with the world of vinyl until she started filming.