EXCLUSIVE: Stranger Things star Sadie Sink will bow on the London stage as Juliet in the production Romeo and Juliet Deadline can reveal that hot director Robert Icke will helm the film in March.
But soft – who is her Romeo? Ike and producer James Bierman chose Noah Skirt (A Quiet Place, Le Mans 66) to play a love-starved teenager in love with Juliet.
I must say, they look exactly like unhappy lovers.
Jupe playing Hamlet in Chloe Zhao's film. Hamnet The film, which opens this month, will mark his professional theater debut. The actor will also appear opposite Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman in the upcoming second series of the BBC drama. Night manager.
Sink, who plays Max Mayfield in Stranger Thingstheater creation who played in the musical Annie on Broadway when she was just 10 years old. A year later, she portrayed Princess Elizabeth, who would grow up to become Helen Mirren's Elizabeth II, in the Peter Morgan film. Audience.
Earlier this year Sink was nominated for a Tony Award. for the lead role in the film Kimberly Bellflower John Proctor – villain.
Sadie Sink (on the table) and the actors of the film “John Proctor – the Villain”
Juliet Cervantes
The shell is what is known as correct actress. Of course, she's starring in a big TV hit and is currently filming. Spider-Man: Brand New Day until mid-December, but the theater is her home; this is the place she is looking for.
Birman saw Sink in New York in John Proctor – Willain “and thought she was fantastic.”
He adds that she has “great stage presence and obviously grew up on stage” due to Annie And Audience.
Bierman and his company Empire Productions produced the Susie Miller film. First personwhich brought Jodie Comer countless awards, including a Tony and an Olivier.
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He says Texas-born Sink's first meeting with Ike lasted four hours. “And then she just dove in and did some workshops with Rob, working on the language and the text. And from there it really grew organically that this was a play, this was a role for her… Like I said, it felt incredibly organic, very organic from the very beginning.”
“And we were very lucky that the stars aligned because this period of time that she was actually available for something was consistent with the freedom of the Harold Pinter Theater,” explains Bierman.
Performances Romeo & Juliet will begin on March 16th and will run for a limited 12 weeks until June 6th.
Noah Jupe at the 2025 Toronto Film Festival
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day scheduled to open July 31st. There has been a lot of speculation about role of Sink in the movie “Spider” and honestly I don't know the answer but I do know that she will be joining the cast of the next one Avengers the film will shoot here in London later in 2026.
Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet This was the first play Ike produced professionally, back in 2012, and Bierman says Ike has “unfinished business” to take care of.
“I think for Rob it's an attempt to explore, really within the play, the question of time… and how there's a moving motif in the play about time and how things move very, very quickly,” Birman says. “And potentially, if things hadn't happened so quickly, they wouldn't have had the outcome that they have. And so he wants to explore it through the lens of time and time passing, and just hint at what could have happened if Romeo had arrived half an hour later, he could have found Juliet awake. But he doesn't. That's what makes it so tragic.”
Ike likes to scrutinize classic plays to find new ways to present a play. An example is his stunning modern production Oedipuswhich takes place on election night. It was a success in London with Mark Strong and Lesley Manville and producer Sonia Friedman. just opened it on Broadway.
While Ike worked in New York, Sink and Jupe read the play with him via Zoom from London. Rehearsals Romeo and Juliet will begin at the end of January.
Sadie Sink
Caitlin Cronenberg
The creative tram will include set and costume designer Hildegard Bechtler, lighting designer John Clark, sound designer Tom Gibbons and video designer Ash J. Woodward.
Casting directors Julia Horan and Jim Carnahan will contact Ike for further casting when he returns to the UK in the next few days.
I ask Birman if there is any possibility that Romeo and Juliet at some point in the future he will travel to New York.
He is quite reasonably cautious. “I think, well, for now, I think it's kind of. And it's also – we've just filled this nice gap before the next one.” Spider-Man the film will come out and then [Sink is] busy again.
Both he and Ike are delighted with the way Sink has tackled the role. “Juliet as a character has a lot of agency and has a lot more of an active journey that sometimes doesn't come out… She's lived a pretty sheltered life and her parents are trying to marry her off to Paris,” Bierman tells us. “And she realizes that maybe this isn't her destiny, but maybe there is a way out of this, that you don't just have to accept it. And then go into Romeo.”
This is an opportunity to explore “Juliet with dynamism and agency,” he states.
