Sadie Sink Discusses 'Stranger Things' Season 5 & Max's Fate
Sadie Sink is opening up about the end of Stranger Things.
The 22-year-old actress got candid in a new cover story for Variety‘s Power of Young Hollywood issue, out now.
During the conversation, Sadie spoke about Season 5 of the hit Netflix series, starring in Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well: The Short Film,” singing for the first time since she was a child on Broadway in the upcoming film O’Dessa, and more.
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On her character Max’s fate in Season 5 of Stranger Things:
“They love having me run. That’s all I’ll say.”
On audiences’ positive reception to Max in Stranger Things:
“I really didn’t think people would care all that much about her journey…Still, I was kind of like, ‘That’s cool.’”
On wanting to stay away from projects like Stranger Things in the future:
“I don’t want to play a superhero or a princess. I just want to make sure everything that I’m doing is different than the last. I’m still young, and I’m still learning.”
On starring in Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well: The Short Film”:
“At that point, I had never been in love. I had never been through a breakup that intense. It was all foreign territory for me. I had to rely on just my years of research as a Swiftie…But as I was going, things from my personal life kind of came forward, which fueled it even more. Then I was like, ‘Whoa. Maybe I should do some work on Sadie in these areas.’…It holds this incredibly nostalgic feeling for me now that I feel physically in my body. It’s too intense.”
On singing for the first time since she was on a child on Broadway in the upcoming film O’Dessa:
“There was this moment where I was just like, ‘Oh, my God. I can’t believe I said yes to this. F-ck. What am I doing?!’…I would sing a song, and no one else would really know that I’m freaking out on the inside…There were some days where it was harder than others. But sometimes, it was like, ‘I feel completely fearless right now, and I’m singing in front of a lot of people!”
On her transition to acting as a child versus an adult:
“I had this wall up before. In my everyday life, I really suppress most emotions. Weirdly, when I’m acting, that’s when any anger or sadness that I have can just explode. That’s its moment.”
The stage play Stranger Things: The First Shadow is officially heading to Broadway!