Shannon Purser has made a name for herself playing teenage characters who are defiantly themselves. But the actor, who you probably know better as Barb from Stranger Things, tells Jezebel this wasn’t always the case for her when she was younger.
“[I changed] the way that I dressed and acted to get a guy to like me. He was kind of punk rock and cool and in a band,” she says. “I really wanted him to think I was as cool as he was, so I went out and bought Converse and tried to, like, wear black around him.”
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