Sadie Sink on Starting Stranger Things at 14 & Playing Brendan Fraser’s Daughter in The Whale

you know our next guest as the Kate Bush loving monster fighting arcade Aficionado Max Mayfield from stranger things next she Stars alongside Brendan Fraser in the whale it opens in New York and LA on Friday please say hello to Sadie sink [Applause] well you got out here fast I mean you just moved to that chair did I yeah very fast yeah are you fast um no no you're not I know sometimes did you run track or anything in school no how old were you when you got on Stranger Things I was 14. now man this show is not only is it hugely popular but it was it's especially popular with people in your age group so that must have been was did you go nuts when they called you and said well yeah because I joined the show in season two and I was a fan of season one before right so all my friends were watching it and everything and then I was in the audition process for Max and I think I'd done like four callbacks did the screen test and then I found out that I got the role that Jeffers called me I was at a speech and debate practice oh really yes I was are you on the debate team well no it was more like forensic so it was like the acting speech debate I see okay yeah the like nerdy part well it's yeah it's all pretty pretty nervous and so you get the call they call you and they're like yeah we want you to be on the show yeah and then they like sent a skateboard to my house the next day and had to learn how to do that but yeah it's definitely a life-changing call did they send a helmet too or they just send the skill then the knee pads the elbows that's the whole thing yeah and then then you have to take lessons or did you know how to do it no I had no idea how to do it and I really I really didn't like it because the first day I took a pretty hard fall and I just like set a just a bad tone yeah right Journey yeah did you lie and say you knew how to ride a skateboard beforehand no but I said I had rollerblading experience which is just a lot it makes you don't go hand in hand so I don't know why I thought that would I like that idea yeah that even like there is such a thing as rollerblading experience yes I work in the rollerblading industry for a few years and so okay so you get on this show and you don't then know how long you're going to be on it right you could get eaten by something oh totally everything's up in the air I thought I was gonna in season four yeah and the show gets even more popular and more popular which is crazy usually it doesn't go that way to the point where um and I don't want to reveal anything for those who haven't binged the show but I was mentioning this Kate Bush song uh running up the hill and you uh your character for reasons that maybe we shouldn't explain loves this song it's a very important song to her very important song to her and as a result it becomes a hit again like almost 40 years after the song came out a huge hit like every it's playing everywhere didn't you do people bring it up to you all the time well yeah yeah I think the the first time I realized that it was big was when I was just in an Uber and it started playing on the radio I was like oh I think that that has something to do with the show oh wow yeah isn't that crazy did you know like a lot about the 80s or was it just like like to you it was like the 50s it was very foreign to me but now it's kind of normal all the like props and stuff and everything you've learned about the 80s yes and now do you agree that it was the best decade ever yeah gosh yeah I like it yeah did you know about Brendan Fraser did you had you seen his films before no I I hadn't and I was going to watch it before we started filming but this character that he plays is very specific and I thought it would be cool to kind of just see him as that since then I have watched a few Brendan Fraser movies which is your favorite which ones have you watched I like School Ties School Ties okay that was the first one then I watched George of the Jungle I'd like to see The Mummy though I need to see the mummy and the dazzled I hear so that's on my lips did he give you this list or is this a list that you came up with on your own I feel like throughout this press Journey everyone's just been giving me recommendations to watch but so the list is very long I see and well people will see in the movie and I feel like I can reveal this because people do know this Brendan Fraser plays a um a morbidly obese man who's your dad in in the movie and he is absent fact I have to say you know I was wondering I was curious to see how much of that was real and it turns out almost none of that is real I mean he's not he's not fat at all yeah he would go through like four hours of Prosthetics every morning so um it's very cumbersome process for him as it should be I would have done it the old-fashioned way snacks you know that's committed and was that disturbing to see that um no I mean I think it was just really cool to see Brendan's like mental transformation once he fully had the Prosthetics on it was he kind of just like really became that character but yeah it's certainly not something you see every day but yeah no definitely not something you see every day would you be in the room like next in the makeup room or did they have like what kind of like was he laying on his back or like I don't know what happened there was like there was like a tent and nobody ever went back there but that's where it all happened get a cooling tent ah interesting you didn't have to do any of that I just I just stood on my mark and he just you know was there maybe they'll do a sequel in like 30 years where you as his daughter have also put on 800 pounds I mean the way this movie ends yeah that's right has your family seen the movie yeah my family got to watch her for the first time in New York at the premiere oh that's great yeah who went who from your family mom dad and my three older brothers you're all your older brothers and what did they think of it I mean it's definitely different than stranger things and yeah they that's they're fans of the show and I tell them everything about that but this they really didn't know that much about my character about anything um my brother Spencer at the at the end of the screening I was like how'd you like it and he's like your character's a like dirt bag you're awful in it that was really defensive but it's nice it's kind of it's one of those movies do you kind of want him to think that were you defensive of your uh the assertion that your character is a dirt bag yeah he's when he said that Ellie was a dirtbag I yeah I didn't take it well huh I was but then but then he was kind of he's also a lawyer now so he had like some some pretty fair points yeah yeah yeah I think I was kind of convinced by the end I was like yeah now she's just really not that great yeah yeah no I'm gonna have to go along with your brother with Spencer on that one uh well it's great to see him congratulations on uh this unbelievable success stranger things and then this movie is like a a big deal well it's literally a a very big deal we're very excited yeah the movie's called the whale it opens in New York and L.A on Friday and then everywhere on December 21st Sadie sink everybody thank you Shady back with Rita Wilson and Smokey Robinson [Applause]

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Length: 7min 37sec (457 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 07 2022