Sadie Sink Gets Candid About Spider-Man: Brand New Day — Says Both Are Very Hard
With Stranger Things Season 5 looming, Sadie Sink stays tight-lipped on Max’s fate — even weighing whether keeping Hawkins secrets is tougher than talking about her other roles.
Sadie Sink is doing the thing actors dread: juggling two vault-level secrets at once. On one side, the fate of Max in Stranger Things 5. On the other, whatever she is (or is not) doing in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. And if you were hoping she might slip... she kind of told us which one is the bigger landmine.
The spoiler standoff
In a recent press chat ahead of the Stranger Things Season 5 rollout, Sink got hit with a brutal question: which secret is harder to keep, Max in Stranger Things or her whole deal in Brand New Day? Her answer was short and lethal:
'Both are very hard. But I think what happens to Max might be the hardest.'
A fan-posted clip on X from Nov 14, 2025 shows her trying to keep a straight face while her co-stars poke fun at her for even going that far. Translation: Max has a lot going on, and Sink knows it.
What she said (and didn’t) about Spider-Man
This is not the first time she has been pressed on Brand New Day. Since her casting was announced, MCU questions have followed her everywhere. At the Stranger Things premiere, Entertainment Tonight tried to get one word to describe her Spider-Man character. Sink laughed it off with a very polite deflection: 'I thought this was the Stranger Things premiere. I wasn’t prepared.' When they pushed again, she shut it down with a simple 'Mmm, no.'
That is basically been the rhythm in other interviews too: no specifics, no crumbs, nothing. The Marvel machine is locked up tight, and she is not the one cracking it open.
Why fans are nervous
Some viewers are reading the silence as a bad sign. Marvel has a history of turning big names into blink-and-you-miss-it moments or letting rumors run wild that never pan out. A few greatest hits:
- Brad Pitt popped in for a split-second gag in Deadpool 2. Hilarious, yes. Substantial, no.
- J.B. Smoove was once rumored to be J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man: Far From Home. He was not.
- William Jackson Harper showed up in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and, despite the Reed Richards chatter, played someone else entirely.
So the current theory split looks like this: either Marvel has actually tightened the leaks for once (yes, even for Tom Holland), or the reason everything feels so airtight is because there is not much to spoil. Fans are hoping it is the former. No one wants Sadie Sink showing up for five minutes and leaving.
So what does her answer actually tell us?
It is pretty clear Max is headed for a heavy arc in Season 5. That tracks, given where Season 4 left her. As for Brand New Day, her non-answers could mean anything: real role, mystery cameo, or just Marvel keeping its standard clamp on information. The only concrete takeaway is that the bigger spoiler, in her words, lives in Hawkins, not Queens.
The calendar check
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is currently set to open in the US on July 31, 2026.
Think Sink is cooking up something major, or are we getting Marvel minimalism again? I am leaning optimistic, but I have also seen this movie before.