It was "really difficult" for Sadie Sink to part ways with the Netflix show that marked her breakthrough.
The actress, 22, appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night (Jan. 30) and expressed her sadness about closing the final chapter of Stranger Things. The show, which wrapped filming in December, will release its fifth and final season sometime this year.
"It was really hard, really difficult to say goodbye," Sink, who plays Max Mayfield on the show, said around the 4:20-minute mark of the video below. "I think 10 years for the whole show. But I don't know, we grew up on it, grew up with each other, like our audience grew up watching us and I don't know."
But Fallon also wanted to know if Sink took any memorabilia from the set, which she confessed to.
"I took a lot from the set," she said as Fallon high-fived her. "Well, just like the essentials, you know. I needed Max's skateboard, which, that was actually gifted to me, the skateboard, cool. I've got some Walkmans, some Kate Bush cassette sand some Vans and stuff. Like, every shoe that she's worn."
The actress also joked that her home is becoming a "little museum" dedicated to Stranger Things, and that she needed to "be careful" with the overflow of goods from the show.
A similar response about the sadness of leaving the show was expressed by Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer in a new interview with Variety.
“It was definitely sad,” Ross Duffer said. "We’re not going to tell the story with these characters anymore, with that crew or those actors. We were all exhausted, but at the same time, we all had to take some time to mourn the loss of it."
