Eli Brown Reveals His ‘F**k It List’ Role Is ‘So Not Me’: I Wanted To Do ‘Something Different’

hollywoodlife.com:

Eli Brown is back on the screen in Netflix’s The F**k It List in arguably his best performance to date — and it turns out his character Brett Blackmore couldn’t be more opposite of the real-life Eli. “I think what attracted me to the project was it was so opposite my upbringing.

It wasn’t one of those — sometimes you get scripts and you’re like, ‘oh this is so me and I relate to this character and I want to portray this,'” the 26-year-old said to HollywoodLife in an EXCLUSIVE new interview. “This was the opposite, it just like — so not me.

I wanted to do something different,” he explained. In the film, Eli’s character Brett is a high school senior who is the definition of over-achiever, gaining admission to seven out of eight Ivy League