Stranger Things' Sadie Sink Insists Jean Grey X-Men Reports Are 'News to Me,' but Admits 'It's an Awesome Rumor'

Earlier this month, Sadie Sink, who plays Max Mayfield successful Stranger Things, was reported to beryllium acceptable to prima alongside Tom Holland successful Spider-Man 4. Deadline said that Sink, who made her movie debut successful the 2016 biographical sports play Chuck, would look successful the upcoming MCU movie, which begins filming aboriginal this twelvemonth and has a merchandise day of July 31, 2026.

Marvel and Sony had nary remark erstwhile contacted by Deadline, but the work speculated that Sink would play either X-Men quality Jean Grey oregon "another beloved redheaded Spider-Man character."

IGN subsequently dived heavy into the Marvel characters Sadie Sink could play successful Spider-Man 4 and beyond successful the MCU.

Now, speaking to Josh Horowitz successful a caller interview, Sink remained coy astir the Jean Grey X-Men speculation, but admitted the rumor is "awesome."

"This is quality to me," Sink said successful effect to the Jean Grey / X-Men rumor.

Sink was past asked if she had spoken to Marvel Studios main Kevin Feige oregon immoderate Marvel typical astir Jean Grey.

“No,” she replied. “I person thing to accidental astir this.”

Then: “The rumors are truly chill though. It’s an awesome rumor!”

Sink said she knows the Jean Grey character: “It’s a large character, truthful it was chill to read!”

And finally, connected the theoretical imaginable of committing a important magnitude of clip and vigor to perchance playing a MCU quality for years, Sink responded: “I deliberation that’s ace exciting.”

And past the chat stopped, with Sink intelligibly wanting to support her cards adjacent to her chest. Horowitz mentioned revisiting the interrogation successful the aboriginal when, perhaps, it is yet confirmed that Sink has a relation successful the MCU.

Could Saide Sink play Jean Grey successful Spider-Man 4? Photo by Arturo Holmes/WireImage.

Late past year, Marvel Studios brag Kevin Feige teased the instauration of X-Men characters successful the "next few" MCU movies.

Feige told an assemblage astatine the Disney APAC Content Showcase successful Singapore that fans would spot “some X-Men players that you mightiness recognize” successful the adjacent fewer MCU movies, but helium stopped abbreviated of saying which characters oregon what movies.

On bringing the X-Men into the MCU, Feige added: “I deliberation you volition spot that continues successful our adjacent fewer movies with immoderate X-Men players that you mightiness recognize.

“Right aft that, the full communicative of Secret Wars truly leads america into a caller property of mutants and of the X-Men. Again, [it’s] 1 of those dreams travel true. We yet person the X-Men back.”

At the time, Marvel’s adjacent fewer movies, if we presume fewer to mean three, were Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts*, and past Phase Six kickstarter The Fantastic Four: First Steps successful July 2025.

Perhaps much apt are much mutant appearances passim Phase 6 movies, which see 2026’s Avengers: Doomsday and Spider-Man 4, and 2027’s Avengers: Secret Wars. One of the cardinal questions present volition beryllium whether Deadpool and Wolverine instrumentality to the MCU having seen specified immense occurrence with their ain movie this summer. Could Channing Tatum besides reprise his relation arsenic Gambit?

Feige has besides said the X-Men volition beryllium an important portion of the MCU’s aboriginal pursuing Secret Wars. "When we were preparing for Avengers: Endgame years ago, it was a question of getting to the expansive finale of our narrative, and past we had to commencement each implicit again aft that,” Feige said. “This time, connected the roadworthy to Secret Wars, we already cognize precise good what the communicative is going to beryllium until past and afterwards. The X-Men are an important portion of that future.”

It sounds similar Phase 7 of the MCU volition beryllium dominated by the X-Men, then, but successful the abbreviated term, Storm appeared successful What If...? Season 3, marking the character’s archetypal quality successful the wider MCU.

In October, Marvel Studios added 3 untitled movie projects to its 2028 merchandise schedule: February 18, 2028; May 5, 2028; and November 10, 2028. It seems progressively apt 1 of these movies is X-Men.

Image credit: Marvel Comics.

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