Sadie Sink “Cried So Much” on Last Day of ‘Stranger Things’: “There Are Some Pretty Embarrassing Photos”

Sadie Sink made an appearance in Austin, Texas on Saturday to debut her new film O’Dessa at SXSW, where she also looked back at wrapping up the final season of Stranger Things.

The hit Netflix series finished filming its fifth season in December and is set to be released this year. Sink told The Hollywood Reporter, “I haven’t seen anything from it yet, I’m very curious though. It’s going to be super emotional so I’m ready to cry with everyone.”

The actress also admitted to having done plenty of crying on the final day of the show’s filming, remembering, “I had cried so much that my eyes were so puffy — they had never been like that before and there are some pretty embarrassing photos of me just with these giant puffy eyes.”

Before she shifts into Stranger Things promotion mode, though, Sink is starring in O’Dessa, a rock opera set in a post-apocalyptic future. She stars as the titular O’Dessa, a farm girl who goes on a journey to retrieve a family heirloom and save her true love.

Upon hearing the pitch of “rock opera,” Sink said she was “immediately intrigued but I had to listen to the music first. And then I did and I really fell in love with the character and also just the musical world that [writer-director] Geremy [Jasper] had built. So it seemed like the perfect challenge to take on.”

Sink got her start on Broadway — and is returning this spring with play John Proctor is the Villain — but she said singing in the film versus on stage are “very different. I hadn’t sang in like 10 years, so it was cool to like come into a new voice through O’Dessa. Scary but rewarding.”

O’Dessa, which also stars Kelvin Harrison Jr., Regina Hall and Murray Bartlett, starts streaming March 20 on Hulu.

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