Millie Bobby Brown Urges Fans to 'Be Patient' for Final Season of Stranger Things: 'It Is Worth It, I Promise'

As the anticipation for the final season of Stranger Things grows, Millie Bobby Brown has a message for fans.

"Be patient," the 21-year-old star of the Netflix series told reporters, including PEOPLE, at the premiere of her Netflix movie The Electric State on Feb. 24.

"Let the Duffers create what they've been doing for the last 10 years so beautifully," she said, referring to the show's creators Matt and Ross Duffer.

Of the final installment, which wrapped production in December after nearly a year of shooting, Brown assured, "It is worth it, I promise."

The long-awaited final installment will go out with a bang, Matt and Ross Duffer have previously promised. "There's no time for a ramp-up. It's going to be intense from beginning to end," Matt said in a press release last month, calling season 5 "big and epic."

"It’s also going to feel familiar," Ross added. "This season is the biggest it’s ever been in scale, but everyone’s back together in Hawkins, interacting the same way they were in Season 1."

All of the fan-favorite characters are back in action in the final season, including core stars Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink, Gaten Matarazzo and Noah Schnapp, as well as David Harbour, Winona Ryder, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Natalia Dyer and Charlie Heaton.

Fans also got their first taste of what's to come in January as Netflix released a missing person poster for Brown's character, Jane Hopper (also known as Eleven), who has been missing since June 1986.

In a teaser released on Stranger Things Day in November, it was revealed that season 5 will feature a time-jump and take place in the fall of 1987, meaning that Eleven hasn't been seen in over a year when the show picks up.

Brown and her castmates wrapped production for the final time in December, and she shared a glimpse into the emotional last day on set in an Instagram post, captioned, "with love, el ❤️."

She shared a collection of photos from her eight years on the show in the post, and ended it with a video of her reading a heartfelt goodbye note to the cast and crew.

“And isn't graduation supposed to bring relief? Like you're glad to leave behind the teachers and classmates. Not me. I am nowhere near ready to leave you guys,” she said in the clip, reading the message off her phone.

"I love each and every one of you and I will forever carry the memories and bonds we created together as a family. I love you, thank you.”

Brown's costar Sadie Sink similarly reflected on how difficult it was to say goodbye to the show during a recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

"It was really hard, really difficult to say goodbye," she said. "I think 10 years for the whole show... But I don't know, we grew up on it, grew up with each other, like our audience grew up watching us."

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Seasons 1-4 of Stranger Things are now streaming on Netflix.