Millie Bobby Brown and Louis Partridge’s First ‘Enola Holmes’ Audition Tape Just Resurfaced, and Fans Can’t Handle the Nostalgia

Six years is a long time in Hollywood years, especially when it comes to a franchise built on two teenagers finding their footing together on screen. ‘Enola Holmes‘ turned Millie Bobby Brown and Louis Partridge into one of Netflix’s most beloved on screen pairings, and their chemistry as Enola and Lord Tewkesbury has carried the series through three films.

That journey just reached a new milestone, with ‘Enola Holmes 3’ having wrapped up the pair’s long romantic arc after finally streaming on Netflix. Rather than push another trailer or clip to keep the momentum going, the streamer decided to look backward instead of forward.

Netflix dug up Millie Bobby Brown and Louis Partridge’s original chemistry read for the very first ‘Enola Holmes’ film and shared the footage as part of its Tudum content push. The clip shows two noticeably younger actors feeling each other out in a plain room, long before anyone could have predicted Enola and Tewkesbury would become a six year, three film commitment.

Partridge has since opened up about what that day actually felt like from his side of the table. He said he remembers being intimidated, but that director Harry Bradbeer was lovely and Millie was really friendly, adding that it was a bit of a whirlwind and that he still remembers exactly where the audition took place, a detail he shared in an interview with Netflix’s own Tudum. Partridge, who was 15 at the time, said it was the first audition where he genuinely felt he could have fun instead of just reading lines to his mom, who he did all his self tapes with.

That early spark clearly did not fade. Critics reviewing ‘Enola Holmes 3’ have pointed to Brown and Partridge’s chemistry as still effortless, with one review specifically praising their oceanside reconnection scene as sincerely romantic. The threequel finds Enola and Tewkesbury attempting to marry in Malta before Sherlock’s disappearance pulls the newly engaged couple into another dangerous case.

The timing of the throwback video does not feel accidental either. Writer Jack Thorne has described the film’s ending as more of a comma than a full stop for the franchise, and Partridge has made his own attachment to the role just as clear, noting that playing Tewkesbury has been a significant part of his life for six years and that he will always feel connected to the character.

For longtime viewers, watching two nervous teenagers audition their way into what became one of Netflix’s defining franchise pairings hits differently now that the story has technically reached its latest chapter. It captures a version of Enola and Tewkesbury that existed before anyone in that room knew what the characters would eventually become.

Seeing where Millie Bobby Brown and Louis Partridge started as Enola and Tewkesbury, does it change how you feel about everything the two of them have built across all three films?