Sadie Sink is the young actress to watch—just ask Taylor Swift.
At just 20 years old, the Stranger Things star has seen a string of massive successes this year, culminating in a gut-wrenching performance alongside Brendan Fraser in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale. Playing the estranged daughter of an obese, housebound college professor, Sink’s performance has everyone singing her praises, including singer-songwriter superstar Swift.
Swift, who cast Sink as the “lovestruck, then lovelorn” leading lady in her All Too Well: The Short Film last fall, gushed to Entertainment Weekly about the young powerhouse’s “versatility and emotional dexterity” in The Whale.
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Sharing a piece she wrote honoring Sink for EW’s 2022 Entertainers of the Year series, Swift applauded her emotional performance in the fourth season of Stranger Things and said that the actress is constantly amazing her, whether it be on the big or small screen.
“She continued to show audiences this level of versatility and emotional dexterity, next rising to the challenge of playing Brendan Fraser’s complex and defiant estranged daughter Ellie in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale. Ellie is a character for whom years of rejection and confusion has calcified into rage, and Sadie threaded the needle with the exact attention to detail such tumult calls for,” she writes, adding that even the film’s director had nothing but positive things to say about Sink.
“Darren said of working with her, ‘Sadie is as precise as a surgeon’s scalpel. She’s a firecracker of emotion and a complete professional.’”
Swift Says She Feels ‘Lucky’ to Watch Sink Shine Even From Afar
Recalling Sink’s range of emotion and ability to ad-lib intense scenes with co-star Dylan O’Brien on the set of All Too Well: The Short Film, the Grammy-winner said that no matter what’s next for the actress, she feels “lucky to watch” the rising star from afar.
“She is a force to watch and a pleasure to know. I’ll continue to feel just as lucky to watch from afar as she lights up the screen, tells new stories, and shows us new sides of herself: multifaceted and brilliant, dark and unhinged, twinkly and full of promise. This artist contains multitudes, and we get to look on as she courageously unveils them.”
“Everyone say, ‘Thank You, Sadie,’” Swift added.
Based on a screenplay of the same name by Samuel D. Hunter and also starring Hong Chau, The Whale is now in theaters.
