Hollywood actress Sadie Sink has expressed her deep emotional connection to Kate Bush’s iconic song ‘Running Up that Hill’.
The 22-year-old star, known for her role as Max Mayfield in ‘Stranger Things’, has seen her character become linked to this 1985 classic, particularly after the show’s fourth season. Despite the frequent play of the song, she shared that she is not “tired” of it. This sentiment comes from the wealth of memories associated with the track, as reported by ‘Female First UK’.
In an interview with SFX magazine, she stated, “I’m still able to listen to it. I mean, I don’t voluntarily, I’m not listening to it in my free time, but I actually think it’s such a hit and it’s a really good song, so I’m not tired of it. But it definitely is one of those songs that, when I listen to it, it’s very emotional now because it’s so connected to the show. It always brings up these big feelings.”
As her character’s on-screen boyfriend, Lucas Sinclair, attempts to connect with her by playing the song, Sadie admitted that hearing it again was “weird” initially. She reminisced, “I remember being like, ‘Are we really doing this again?’ And we were on that set again, and I was in the same outfit I’d been in since I was 17 years old, and now I was 22. I was just in the same clothes and in the red void. Obviously, it’s different circumstances, different stakes, so it’s a little bit different, and it doesn’t have the same outcome in the end. But it was this moment of, ‘Whoa, okay, we’re really back here!’ Especially after the song had become what it did, to go back to that set and do the running again, I was like, ‘Huh, this feels weird’.”
According to ‘Female First UK’, while her character appears unconscious, Max is trapped in Henry Creel/Vecna’s dreamscape, Camazotz. Sadie shared her feelings of missing Caleb, expressing how it was difficult not to act alongside him as in previous seasons.
She reflected, “It’s really sad in a way. I really missed getting to act with Caleb because there were none of my familiar faces around me. It was hard at first. But Max and Lucas, it’s heartbreaking; they’re so connected still in so many ways, him playing the song for her and her hearing it, and then it going away. They sense each other’s presence, relying on each other still, but actually not being able to be together.”