TAYLOR: Was that a fun scene to film or was it kind of hard?

SINK: I mean it was both, because I love Dacre and I have being mean to Dacre, but then again it’s acting so I had to suck it up and do it. But at the same time it was really fun because I loved swinging the baseball bat.

TAYLOR: Did you guys have to kind of keep each other arms length so that the tension between you two was real?

SINK: No, we were like best friends on set! We crack jokes in-between takes and stuff like that, but then as soon as they call action we have to be enemies.

TAYLOR: I didn’t really understand why his character was so mean to you, is there a reason that we might find out or is he just angry?

SINK: I’m hoping they explore that more in season three, but also you get a little bit of insight into their home life and why he’s so angry. When Max is explaining it on the bus she says the reason they moved from California was because they were getting away from Max’s dad, but also you see that the stepdad is really mean to Billy, so he’s taking his anger out, because anger is all he knows because of his dad, so he just takes all of his anger out on Max.

TAYLOR: I read that fans were initially mad that you got the role because you don’t look tough enough.

SINK: Yeah I don’t know that was kind of the hardest part for me, coming into this I knew that a lot of people liked Stranger Things but I didn’t really realize how many fans there were online and what a big fan base it had, like on Instagram or on social media. I think once it was announced, people weren’t necessarily happy, some people didn’t want a new character, so that was a little bit hard because I felt, I worked so hard and they didn’t want me on the show. But once I got there and started filming I felt a lot better because I saw how supportive the cast was. Things are a lot better now, once people met Max I think they realized that she’s cool, she’s not going to mess with anyone or ruin anything, it’s fine.

TAYLOR: Did you have any idea how your life might change following the season debut?

SINK: Yeah, I kind of did just by watching Millie, Gaten, Caleb, Finn and Noah, and how their life changed after season one came out. That kind of gave me a vision of what might happen to me. So just by watching them and how much they traveled and they went to Comic-Con and whenever I would go somewhere with them, they would get recognized, so that was a sneak peak of what I thought I’d experience when the show came out. But it’s not as crazy as I thought it was going to be, it’s been fun and a good experience so far.