Sadie Sink ’s breakout role came as Max on Stranger Things , but her fame reached new heights with the 2021 release of Taylor Swift ’s All Too Well: The Short Film . Sink, 22, starred alongside Dylan O’Brien in the video for Swift’s 10-minute opus . Three years later, the video has amassed 99 million views, but Sink admitted she was hesitant to watch herself in it.
Speaking to Bustle in a story published Wednesday, July 10, Sink recalled the fight scene in the film that occurs a couple minutes in. The music breaks after Swift sings, “And all I felt was shame / And you held my lifeless frame,” before the video cuts to Sink and O’Brien together in a kitchen. Nearly three minutes of dialogue occur between the two and, Sink says, it was entirely improvised.
She didn’t even expect Swift to keep the scene in the final cut. “I was really scared to watch the video. When she told me she kept that scene, I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’” Sink recalled.
“It was completely on the fly; I don’t remember anything I said; we only did one take.” Not only was it unscripted, but Sink says she didn’t even know it was going to happen until they were ready to shoot. “I remember they attached microphones to us, and I was like, ‘Why are they making us wear a mic?’” she added.
“I thought they were just capturing our mouths moving and we were going to visualize a fight in the kitchen [with music playing over it]. I just went with whatever came up in t.
