After three seasons on Netflix’s tentpole hit, the 20-year-old starlet no longer feels like the new kid.
Warning: This article contains spoilers fromStranger Thingsseason 4, Volume 2.
Sink performed take after take of Max jolting up from her seat in various ways.
Max (Sadie Sink) and Robin (Maya Hawke) hunt for clues in ‘Stranger Things’ season 4.netflix
It all makes sense now that the episodes are out in the world.
“To be transported to that moment in time was wild for both me and the character.”
Sink is still wrapping her head around such high praise.
Will Max (Sadie Sink) and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) reconcile?.Netflix
Merely pointing out the positive feedback to her work trips her up.
He just needed to take the lives of four individuals.
Max was one of them.
Max (Sadie Sink) reads a letter to her dead brother Billy in ‘Stranger Things’ season 4.Courtesy of Netflix
But she’s unable to stop him from technically killing Max before she can take him down.
“It really is just so sad,” Sink says of this tense ending.
It was very emotional."
“It’s just so heartbreaking,” the starlet adds of the scene.
The melody returns as Lucas weeps over a fast-fading Max.
“[Series creators] the Duffers definitely love using that song,” she says.
“I feel like it was even playing on one of the [takes] on the day.
It usually signals that something wrong is happening.
It definitely stirs up a lot of emotions in me, personally.”
Ultimately, Eleven is able to bring Max back to life, but she remains in a coma.
Attempts to reach Max in her mind result in El wandering the black psychic void.
“I’m not sure where we’re going and what Max’s state is.
Sink remains grateful toMattandRoss Dufferfor entrusting her with such a meaty storyline this season.
It’s “the biggest battle Max has ever had to face,” she says.
Because of that, the actress is getting a lot more visibility these days.
Well, partly because of that.
Swift’s 10-minute “All Too Well” short did shine a profound spotlight on the young star.
(“It was an automatic yes, of course,” Sink confirms.)
For one, Sink’s TikTok feed is now dominated by memes of her Kate Bush moment.
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