Sometimes a lie can change your life — just ask Sadie Sink!
The 20-year-old Stranger Things star has revealed that she lied to get her part on the show. She plays the role of Max on the Netflix phenomenon and she got the role during an audition process when she was just 14 years old.
She told her story in an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, saying:
“I joined the show in season two and I was a fan of season one before.
All of my friends were watching it and everything. I was in the audition process for Max and I think I had done four callbacks, did the screen test and then I found out that I got the role.”
She got the call from series creators The Duffer Brothers while she was at “speech and debate practice.” Afterwards, they went straight to the next step. She said:
“They sent me a skateboard to my house the next day and I had to learn how to do that.”
Here’s the thing though – she had fibbed in her audition:
“I said I had rollerblading experience, which is just a lie.
And the two don’t go hand in hand, so I don’t know what I thought that would mean anything.”
Sadie went on to say that she did start practicing, but she “had no idea how to do it and I really didn’t like it, because the first day I took a pretty hard fall and it just set a bad tone for the entire journey.”
Thankfully, she did make it work soon enough!
