Sadie Sink teases “really dark” and “intense” Stranger Things season 4

Fans have now been waiting two years to see season 4 of Stranger Things, and it’s still in production thanks to a stop-and-start schedule courtesy of the pandemic.

But rest assured: season 4 is coming, and the cast is here to type it up. Recently, star Sadie Sink (Max Mayfield) teased a “really dark” and “intense” fourth installment.

Speaking with Collider, the 19-year-old actor weighed in on the epic size of the production. “The scale of the show just gets bigger and bigger each year so yeah, it’s just been really incredible to see where they’re going with the storyline,” she said. “It’s really amazing this year. And just how the stakes are just so much higher. Higher than they’ve ever been…But there’s something about this season, it’s really intense.”

Of course, the crazy filming schedule may have affected that. “So we started filming Season 4, I don’t even know when it was, but it was before the pandemic and then we got like a month of filming done, then we had to stop for I guess seven or eight months, and then we came back to work and things were completely different,” Sink said. “So I think the real challenging part was just adjusting to the new rules and the regulations that were in place on set. That was a big adjustment. But yeah, I think we were all just so grateful to be able to work. And we’ve been working for a while now and creating something really amazing.

I’m intrigued by her describing the season as “bigger.” That implies the season may go beyond the sleep, monster-infested town of Hawkins, Indiana. We’ve been outside before, in the season 2 episode “The Lost Sister,” but that didn’t get the best reviews and was only for one installment. We know at least some of the season will be set elsewhere, since a previous teaser revealed that Jim Hopper (David Harbour) is still alive…and being held captive in Siberia.

David Harbour confirms Stranger Things season 5?

Speaking of Harbour, we can always count on him to make us laugh. During a break on set, the actor shared a fun image of himself in Hopper’s new prison uniform next to his own action figure, because why not?

“Yeah, I think on my Netflix talking points list, I’m not supposed to say that there is a fifth season,” Harbour said during an appearance on SiriusXM’s Pop Culture Spotlight with Jessica Shaw, basically confirming that the fourth season of Stranger Things won’t be the last season. “If you were on set with someone doing a show that possibly might have a fifth season, I’m sure that those people, if you were close to them, as I am with the Duffer Brothers, would probably bring up things that might move forward into that next season. I mean, you know, from the very start of this show, I’ve talked to them about the arc of this guy [Chief Hopper] and sort of what would be, and they’ve talked to me about him, and what would be really profound and moving.”

"[W]e’re starting to set up things this [fourth] season in particular that are going to pay off very much in terms of that arc construction. I mean, one of the things was the resurrection of this life that he had in terms of fathering, fathering Eleven and revisiting that. And he has to be resurrected now to sort of create something new. And so we have this false death and this resurrection, and now we’ll see, but they do have a plan and it’s very exciting."

Unfortunately, we still don’t know when Stranger Things season 4 will premiere, although sometime in 2022 seems likely. At least the cast is keeping us updated!

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