Trey Taylor: How often do you get recognized now?

Sadie Sink: I mean, a lot. I’m a very lazy person so I don’t really do things or go out very much but when I do get out of the house I do get recognized a lot.

Trey Taylor: And you don’t mind?

Sadie Sink: It depends on the situation, pretty much all the time I’m pretty chill about it and if you want to come to say hi, of course, come to say hi, I’m happy to meet anybody and take pictures or whatever. But if I’m like mid-meal with my family, then maybe it’s not a good time. But that hasn’t happened yet!

Trey Taylor: I recently saw that Finn left a hotel recently and someone asked for an autograph but he didn’t have time. I’m wondering if you had any thoughts on what you guys are expected to do for fans.

Sadie Sink: It just depends, it’s whatever you really want to do. I know personally I will take pictures with anybody and I think it’s important to say hi to your fans, but yeah I think it’s different, it was a change and it was something I had to get used to and different people handle it in different ways, so it’s whatever you feel comfortable with.

Trey Taylor: Child stars or young stars like Macaulay Culkin and Mara Wilson used to be a big thing, then there was this period where there were no massive, young actors and now it seems like again, we have a bunch of young actors. I was wondering if you think it’s time for a new generation of young actors to come up?

Sadie Sink: Yeah, I definitely think so. I think often child actors are like overlooked a little bit. But it’s crazy how much things have changed if you look at how child actors are now versus how they were back then, it’s crazy.

Trey Taylor: Yeah, like the scary stories I’m sure you’ve heard. Do you ever get compared to Jessica Chastain?

Sadie Sink: Yeah, I’ve gotten that before. I’ve been compared to a lot of redheads. Here’s the thing though you can look nothing like somebody, if you both have red hair, all of a sudden people think you look exactly the same.

Trey Taylor: [laughs] Who do you get most often?

Sadie Sink: I get Amy Adams, and when I was little people would say, “Oh, you look like a young Reese Witherspoon, as a young Reese Witherspoon.” Yeah, I got that a lot when I was little, and she doesn’t have red hair so, I don’t know.

Trey Taylor: Have you see that movie Election [1999]?

Sadie Sink: No, what’s that?

Trey Taylor: It’s a young Reese Witherspoon and she’s in high school and she’s trying to win her high school election—it’s so funny.

Trey Taylor: Yeah you should watch it! Anyway, how did you learn to skateboard for the part? Was that like a daunting thing to have to learn?

Sadie Sink: Yeah, it was pretty daunting. When I found out I had to skateboard I was up for the challenge I was ready to do it and then once I actually got on the board I was like, “Oh my god, this is going to be a lot harder than I thought it would be.” The first lesson I thought I was doing awful. I was like, “Oh my god this is terrible.” I wiped out. But then my instructor told me, “No you’re doing really great, you’re learning so fast!” and then I got really comfortable with it and everything worked out fine. I had the stunt coordinator help me and they had a really cool girl who was really chill and she was a skateboarder and she came in and gave me tips and pointers. It was good.

Trey Taylor: How many lessons did you have?

Sadie Sink: I don’t even know. I had them every day for three hours, so I couldn’t even keep track.

Trey Taylor: For how many days?

Sadie Sink: It was like two months.

Trey Taylor: That’s intense, isn’t it?

Sadie Sink: Yeah. Even while I was filming I would have to take skateboard lessons on my days off.

Trey Taylor: So now when you’re not working do you skateboard or are you like, “I can’t even look at this skateboard!”

Sadie Sink: It’s a little bit of both. I’ll skateboard a lot, from time to time I’ll whip out the old trusty skateboard and just skateboard around the block. But then I am a very lazy person, but sometimes I get a sudden urge to go skateboard and I do it. But it’s cold now so it’s a little difficult for that now.

Trey Taylor: I know you’re still in high school now, do you plan on going to college eventually?

Sadie Sink: Definitely, just because growing up I’ve always had this vision of me going to college and it’s something I’ve always been really excited about. So yeah I want to go to college, definitely if it’s possible I want to.