Sadie Sink felt vulnerable when singing in the new film O'Dessa but found joy in being part of a project that combined her love for both music and acting.
"That was the first time I've done that since I was really little," the Stranger Things actor told Reuters.
"Definitely, like, a challenge, but one that I was willing to take," Sink added.
Sink began acting on Broadway as a child, including the lead role as the title character in the musical Annie.
However, the now-22-year-old took a long break from Broadway musical roles as her screen acting career took off, including the breakout role of Maxine 'Max' Mayfield in the second season of the popular Netflix series Stranger Things.
O'Dessa is an American post-apocalyptic musical drama written and directed by Geremy Jasper.
It follows a farm girl named O'Dessa, portrayed by Sink, who embarks on a journey to recover a precious family heirloom and rescue her true love named Euri Dervish, played by Kelvin Harrison Jr.
The movie also stars Murray Bartlett and Regina Hall as the antagonists, Plutonovich and Neon Dion.
The film, which premiered at the 2025 South by Southwest Film and Television Festival in Austin, Texas on 8 March, will begin streaming on Disney+ in Ireland on Thursday 20 March.
For Jasper, O'Dessa combines his affinity for "Americana folklore and European fairy tales and science fiction".
Being a musician who grew up in the 80s and early 90s inspired the Patti Cake$ director to collage "operatic" and "psychedelic music" together, but it wasn't always easy to blend so much into one musical movie.
"I was trying to figure out a story that could contain all of those things, and so, that's what O'Dessa became," he added.
Source: Reuters
