00:00Why does Max in the hospital bed have a different hairstyle from Max in the Upside Down?
00:03No one realizes this is tied to Max's final fate.
00:06In the trailer for Volume 2, we see Lucas carrying Max as they're chased by the Demogorgons.
00:10At this point, Max has two braids, but in the Upside Down, her hair is much messier.
00:14There are three reasons for this design.
00:16First, it hints at Max's unstable state.
00:18While Max's body is still alive, she's not truly safe.
00:22If either her consciousness or her body is destroyed by Vecna, she'll die for real.
00:25What's more, her neat hairstyle in the real world means she's being cared for by family and friends every day, who are all hoping she'll wake up.
00:32Second, the stylist revealed the design was for practicality.
00:35Since Sadie's hair was very short when filming Season 5, they had to put a wig on her.
00:39Wigs are hard to manage if you're lying in bed all day, so they chose to braid Sadie's hair to ensure it wouldn't get messy when Lucas was carrying her and running.
00:46Finally, the Stranger Things crew loves using childlike hairstyles to make the actors look younger.
00:51Compared to Max in the real world, Max in the Upside Down has already completed her character growth arc.
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