Fear Street Part 2: 1978 features a cast of relatively unknown actors led by Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink, though the film proves her career will take her far beyond the beloved sci-fi series. Netflix’s horror homage-filled Fear Street movie trilogy tells the tale of Shadyside, a town cursed by a witch named Sarah Fier who was executed for witchcraft in 1666. Fear Street Part 1 followed a group of teens in 1994, while the second installment jumped back 16 years to the Camp Nightwing Massacre of 1978 that left one notable survivor. The third part travels back in time even further to 1666, revealing what happened to Sarah Fier and why the characters from the first two movies are cursed.
The second Fear Street movie primarily follows two Shadyside sisters at Camp Nightwing, Ziggy (Sink) and Cindy (Emily Rudd) Bergman, who become victims of Sarah Fier’s vengeance and a possessed ax murderer. While Sadie Sink leads the horror movie, audiences couldn’t help but notice the film series’ similarities to Netflix’s Stranger Things aside from the casting of Sink and Maya Hawke. Sink’s breakout Hollywood role was Max Mayfield in Stranger Things, season 2’s new kid in Hawkins who holds her own with the beloved established younger characters from the first season. Both roles involve Sink as a snarky teen who comes from a traumatic home life with an older sibling who only comes around right before their death.
Sink’s role in Stranger Things is largely a sideshow to the major dynamics of Eleven & Mike, Nancy & Jonathan, and Hopper & Joyce, but Fear Street Part 2 is held on Sink’s back, confirming she can take on much more than a non-lead TV series role. Fear Street was promoted with Maya Hawke’s image for the first part and Sink’s for the second, proving these two actresses can offer more to the entertainment industry and hold a lot of sway with young audiences. Both were relatively unknown before their roles in Stranger Things, but their gained notoriety after the show is very different. While Maya Hawke is an incredibly talented actress, she is also the daughter of extremely famous and gifted actors Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, while Sink came in all on her own with relatively no prior acting credits or notable connections to the industry.
Most of the young actors from Stranger Things have gone on to work in other films, but none have accomplished a successful breakout movie like Sink. Millie Bobby Brown had her own Netflix Enola Holmes movie, but its success was also supported by highly praised and popular actors like Henry Cavill, Helena Bonham Carter, and Sam Claflin, while Sink was really the only notable name in her movie. Same with most of the other kids who went on to star in Netflix movies: their performances were largely celebrated, but it wasn’t enough to make the movie a hit, or if it was, they were overshadowed by their co-stars. Fear Street Part 2 rests on Sink’s shoulders and was better received than the first part, largely due to her performance.
Another aspect that elevates Sink’s potential in future projects is her status as Fear Street Part 2’s final girl. Notable final girls in horror movies tend to have long-lasting careers like those from Halloween, Alien, Scream, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. C. Berman was expected to be Ziggy’s sister Cindy, but the final scene reveals her identity as the grown-up version of Ziggy “Christine” Berman, who saw the witch and came back to life after Nick Goode gave her CPR. Even though audiences expected Sink’s character to die, she was the name that drew in many young fans who enjoy following the projects of Stranger Things actors. The Fear Street: 1978 reveal that Ziggy is C. Berman instead of her sister also changes the power that Sink had on the movie with her character being the unexpected final girl that is carried into the third and final Fear Street movie.
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