Like many students before her, Sadie Sink was forced to read The Crucible in school. She found it “incredibly boring.” But her perspective has changed now that she’s starring in John Proctor Is the Villain, a comedy set in a conservative Baptist town about a group of teens who realize the witchcraft-accused protagonist isn’t a good guy. “Arthur Miller’s play is a lot more interesting and profound,” Sink says, “when you’re reading it through the lens of what these young girls are trying to say in our play.”
Her first big project since wrapping production on the final season of Netflix’s Stranger Things, Sink, 22, gravitated toward the authentic nature of the script, written by Kimberly Belflower (Lost Girl and Gondal): “I’ll often read scripts for high-schoolers or young women that are trying to connect with my generation, but it’s rare to find the right fit for a writer who can capture that without dumbing us down.”..READ MORE