Sadie Sink Is Soaking in 'Every Moment' While Filming the Last Season of 'Stranger Things'
Sadie Sink is about to close a significant chapter in her life.
During Variety's Power of Young Hollywood event, where she was honored on Thursday, August 8, the 22-year-old opened up about making every second count while filming the final season of Stranger Things.
"It's been super positive, honestly. Because it's the last season, we really want to savor every moment and just enjoy the time that we have together and deliver a season that everyone's been kind of waiting for," Sink, who joined the cast in Season 2, gushed.
After making waves in showbiz by starring in the hit Netflix series, Taylor Swift's "All Too Well" music video and the Oscar-winning movie The Whale, she has nothing but gratitude for the opportunities given to her. "I've been in this industry for a while, so to have reached this point and achieve this is, I don't know, I just feel very lucky and it's a huge accomplishment," the young actress said.
Sink's career is only going up from here, as the Texas native recently starred in the psychological thriller A Sacrifice, where she portrays a student who gets caught up in a cult that claims to be a wellness group.
"My research wasn't necessarily about cults, but rather how one finds themself in that situation, and the type of people that fall victim to them," she said in a separate interview about diving into her character. "I had a very casual fascination with the subject beforehand — just your typical YouTube rabbit hole, midnight to 2 a.m. situation. But once I started diving in, what I found is that, yes, there is a certain naïveté or vulnerability that comes with victims, but it can also happen to very self-aware, smart people."
A major part of Sink's research was understanding the ways in which these groups are able to capture vulnerable people's attention with something they love or a cause they believe strongly in. "What makes something have a cult following, or what makes it an actual cult? There’s a lot of scary stuff out there. The idea of wellness centers and retreats that are painted as 'health and wellness journeys' or a 'self-discovery trip,' they have cultlike qualities, [even if] we don’t realize it," she shared.
"Fan culture is such a beautiful thing, all these people meeting each other and finding community. But there are two ends of the spectrum. [On one hand,] it’s just a joyous hobby you can celebrate with others. But then the wrong people will feed off of that need for belonging and [turn it into] a self-indulgent, malicious scheme of some sort," the teen star noted.
Entertainment Tonight conducted the interview with Sink.