{"id":220017,"date":"2026-01-06T18:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/220017\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T18:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:12:07","slug":"sadie-sink-says-its-torture-not-being-allowed-to-talk-about-which-character-shes-playing-in-spider-man-brand-new-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/220017\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadie Sink Says ‘It’s Torture’ Not Being Allowed to Talk About Which Character She’s Playing in Spider-Man: Brand New Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not only can Sadie Sink not talk about Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/a>, she can\u2019t even say who she\u2019s playing, something she has described as \u201ctorture.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Stranger Things star has been seen filming opposite Tom Holland, still with her natural red hair<\/a> \u2014 something that has fuelled fan speculation that she’s playing a familiar redheaded character from the Marvel comics.<\/p>\n

Last month, an alleged look at Spider-Man: Brand New Day appeared online<\/a>, offering a clue to Sadie Sink’s mystery character. The leaked Spider-Man trailer was of extremely low quality, but appeared to show Sadie Sink’s character threatening Peter Parker \u2014 and claiming to know his secret identity as Spider-Man.<\/p>\n

\"null\"<\/a>Sadie Sink is set to star in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but as who? Photo by Kate Green\/Getty Images.<\/p>\n

Sink’s role in Spider-Man: Brand New Day has been kept firmly under wraps by Sony since her casting was announced, while a recent on-set sighting showed the Stranger Things star bundled up in an apparent bid to hide her costume<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fan speculation on who Sink might be playing has been rife, with everyone from the X-Men’s Jean Grey to Mayday Parker up for grabs. But a persistent rumor has pointed to Sink playing shapeshifting multiversal villain Shathra. “You’re a mess, Spider-Man,” Sink’s character says in the leaked trailer. “Don’t get in my way. Otherwise, it won’t just be your friends who don’t remember who Peter Parker is.”<\/p>\n

Could this be a double bluff? Sony and Marvel’s Spider-Man movies have a habit of surprising audiences with characters’ true identities (MJ and Mysterio, to name two). And with Sink reportedly returning for 2027’s climactic Avengers: Secret Wars<\/a>, has she really just been cast as this film’s villain?<\/p>\n

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Cast and Characters: Who’s Confirmed for the MCU Sequel?\"Spider-Man:<\/p>\n

Speaking on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/a>, Sink was asked what it\u2019s like not being able to talk about her role on the hotly-anticipated sequel.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s torture!\u201d she replied. \u201cAnd there’s so much speculation, too. I feel like there’s a new character every week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sink did confirm that she has talked about what she\u2019s up to family members, before revealing that she read about her casting in Spider-Man online before she was even asked to appear in the movie.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found out through online theories,\u201d she said. \u201cLike, before I got cast in Spider-Man, like, there was speculation online that said, \u2018Sadie Sink is going to be in the new Spider-Man. I was like, \u2018Hmm? I am?\u2019 And then sure enough, like two days later, they asked me to do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo yeah, those theories are sometimes\u2026 there’s sometimes some truth to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sink is fresh from starring in the much-discussed Stranger Things finale, and the actress has offered her interpretation of the ending and Eleven\u2019s fate<\/a>. Spider-Man: Brand New Day launches this summer.<\/p>\n

Photo by Kate Green\/Getty Images.<\/p>\n

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not only can Sadie Sink not talk about Spider-Man: Brand New Day, she can\u2019t even say who she\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-220017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}