In her TEEN VOGUE cover story, Sadie Sink discusses navigating fame, setting boundaries with fans, and the pressures women face in Hollywood – especially as a young woman who has grown up in the public eye. Sink also discusses her role in the new Broadway play, JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN, finding out how Stranger Things ends at the final table read, prioritizing privacy as she enters the Spider-Man universe, and her experience being directed by Taylor Swift for All Too Well: The Short Film – “I loved working with her.”
On Millie Bobbie Brown’s recent statement about people criticizing her physical appearance: “I had a little bit of a different experience, but I can relate to everything she said. I mean, as women and just as human beings, we naturally grow up and find ourselves. Doing that in the public eye, under scrutiny, definitely is this added pressure that men do not receive. Especially, like Millie was saying, someone who’s been known as a child on TV and then is coming into adulthood. It’s not necessarily the kindest place to do that in this industry, and to do it so publicly.”
On finding out how Stranger Things 5 ends at the final table read: “I had gotten a little piece of information about the final episode back when we were working on season four, but I didn’t know if that had stuck or changed in any way. But it was all kind of revealed when we read the final script. There’s always a lot of world building done, but I think in this season especially, they really push the limits of that and what audiences have seen so far. That kind of surprised me, how they really opened everything up.”
On setting boundaries with fans: “When I was younger I felt like I had to say yes to everyone. You can say no, and that’s fine. And I’m not being rude. It’s just, I don’t have to. That’s been a change for me in the past, like, year or two, honestly.”
“But there’s still always that little voice. It’s like, Oh my God, I’m so rude.”
On relating to her character in John Proctor is the Villain: “I know what it feels like to live in such a small bubble. That’s what I grew up in, and that sense of community and the role that the church plays in that, and how that can really warp some views and just make your world seem a lot smaller.”
On growing up under the public eye: “There was definitely a shift in mentality when you start being perceived as a woman. There’s just this whole other part of feminism and womanhood that becomes clearer the older you get, in different ways. You have to start looking out for yourself and defending yourself…. As I was turning 18, 19, I don’t want to say it took a darker turn, but it kind of became scarier.”
Writer: Claire Dodson
Photographer: Beth Garrabrant
Stylist: Ali Claire Marino
Hair Stylist: Tommy Buckett
Makeup Artist: Mollie Gloss
Manicurist: Julie Kandalec
[Photo Credit: Beth Garrabrant for Teen Vogue Magazine, Courtesy of Teen Vogue]
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