Sadie Sink addresses Max’s fate in ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5

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Season 4 of “Stranger Things,” Max nearly dies. She survives but is left blind and in a coma. The sequence involves the ’80s Kate Bush hit “Running Up That Hill,” which caused the song to hit No.

1 on the charts 37 years after it came out. “They love having me run,” she told Variety about Season 5, implying that Max could wake up from her coma. (Or, Max could be running in another dimension, as she stays comatose in the “real” world.)“She’s going to play a part in the season,” series co-creator Matt Duffer told the outlet, adding that he didn’t want to reveal “how that’s possible” since Max is in a coma. “We did film a scene the other day with her that was just absolutely heartbreaking.

I don’t know how she hits those notes,” he said of Sink’s acting.Set in the small town of Hawkins, Indiana, in the 1980s, “Stranger Things” follows a group of misfit friends, including Max, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), Steve (Joe Keery), former Police Chief Hopper (David Harbour) and perpetually frazzled mom Joyce (Winona Ryder) as they deal with supernatural threats from an alternate dimension called the Upside Down.

In Season 4, Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) emerged as the ultimate villain they’ll have to defeat in Season 5. “I’ve been working all of last week, and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I forgot how hard this show is,’” Sink said about filming the final season. “You’re a team player here.