Sadie Sink Admits She's Scared of Watching Herself in 'All Too Well: A Short Film'

Sadie Sink confessed that she's "really scared" to watch herself in Taylor Swift's All Too Well: A Short Film three years since its release.

Sharing her thoughts to Bustle, the Stranger Things star revealed that some parts of the film were improvised - specifically the three-minute dialogue she and co-star Dylan O'Brien had in the middle part.

Sink was surprised to learn that Swift had added the said part to the final cut of the Grammy-winning music video.

"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 remembered telling Swift. "It was completely on the fly; I don't remember anything I said; we only did one take."

Sink also confessed that she didn't know they were doing that until after everyone prepared to shoot the scene.

"I remember they attached microphones to us, and I was like, 'Why are they making us wear a mic?'" Sink recalled. "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 the moment. It was a crazy, fun acting game, and it happened to be in the final cut."

Sink tried to make sense of what the scene was calling, arguing that in real life, real people do not have thought-out plans for what to argue about but are merely reactive to what the other one is saying-hence, the beauty of improvisation.

"It doesn't have to be fully formed, coherent sentences. You may say the same thing over and over, but that's real, and that's natural," Sink went on to elaborate. "You don't see a lot of natural dialogue in films. So for her to allow us the space to improvise and interact in a way that we would if we were actually having a fight with our partner, just really served the song and the story well."

Initially, Sink was "confused" why Swift had offered her the role. However, Swift noted that they wouldn't have made the video entirely if she had turned down the role.

"I think she has some kind of Spidey sense where she's just able to recognize someone who understands the assignment, because I knew that song so well and I knew the history behind it," Sink revealed.

Swift's All Too Well: A Short Film won three MTV Video Music Awards in 2022, including Best Direction, Best Longform Video, and Video of the Year. It also won Best Longform Video and Best Video at the 2022 MTV Europe Music Awards and Best Music Video at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards.

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