Noah Jupe: noah jupe and Sadie Sink ready to make it fun in Romeo & Juliet
Noah Jupe arrives in London fresh from a Golden Globes weekend where his film Hamnet "won big, " and now prepares to co-star with Sadie Sink in Robert Icke’s Romeo & Juliet at the Harold Pinter Theatre next month, an engagement set to open on March 16. The pair — Jupe, 21, and Sink, 23 — have already been photographed together in a playful, La Dolce Vita–styled shoot and say they want to "make it fun" on the West End stage.
Ida: photoshoot in west London
A few hours before the evening service at Ida, a tiny family-run neighbourhood Italian in west London, the windows were steaming up while an umbrella-buckling January downpour lashed outside. Beneath the restaurant’s gallery walls, adorned with vintage Fellini posters, Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe sat dressed in La Dolce Vita-esque attire — each sipping Sangiovese and feeding one another mouthfuls of pomodoro pasta as candlelight flickered. Watching from the sidelines amid a circus of fashion rails, stylists and crew, the pair laughed and whispered, arms entangled; it was hard to believe they were not a besotted young couple. Captions from the session note a wool jacket and cotton/linen shirt by Celine, a slip dress by Tom Ford for Sink and a sweater by Ferragamo for Jupe.
Noah Jupe on stage rehearsals
Noah Jupe and Sadie Sink have rehearsed together only twice before a high-profile red carpet appearance at the 2026 BAFTAs, they revealed, and Jupe said preparation is progressing well. The two have described a quick early chemistry read — "We did a chemistry read together and that was, what, like, an hour?" Sink recalled — followed by a full-on photoshoot for the posters now papering London’s billboards and Tube tunnels. Jupe joked, "This is basically mine and Sadie’s entire relationship, " and the pair are already finishing each other’s sentences.
Career moments and recent milestones
Jupe arrived at the BAFTA ceremony jet-lagged from Los Angeles after Hamnet's Golden Globes success. In Hamnet he appears alongside his younger brother Jacobi Jupe, with the film featuring Jacobi as the actor performing Hamlet himself. Sink is navigating the end of Stranger Things after almost 10 years, the show that defined her as Max Mayfield, and has just come off a Tony-nominated Broadway run for John Proctor Is the Villain. Both performers bring varied pedigrees: Sink made her Broadway debut at age 10 in Annie, while Jupe has appeared in acclaimed projects since age 10 and has worked with directors such as Chloé Zhao.
Director’s concept and staging choices
Director and playwright Robert Icke has set this production in a "version of now" Verona and says he is less interested in the inevitability of tragedy than in the coincidence that brings the lovers together. Icke, who has just wrapped a Broadway transfer of his adaptation of Oedipus starring Lesley Manville and Mark Strong, told the interviewer over the phone that "it’s so fragile, the way the events lead to each other. " He described messages failing and timing betraying the characters, adding: "It’s the sort of play that says, ‘Well, if you stop for a coffee at the wrong time, you might miss your soulmate. ’ If Romeo were to turn up at Juliet’s tomb about four minutes later, he would find her alive and they’d be absolutely fine. " Icke drew inspiration for this staging from the 1998 film Sliding Doors.
Shakespeare, nerves and influences
Both performers admitted initial intimidation about tackling Shakespeare. Jupe said he once wondered, "Can I do Shakespeare if I haven’t been to RADA?" Working on Hamnet alongside Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal and Emily Mortimer gave him a first accessible experience with Shakespearean material, and he has cited learning humility and passion from colleagues such as Paul Mescal. Sink described a decisive summer meeting in London with Icke — arranged by their agents while she was filming a top-secret role in Spider-Man: Brand New Day — that lasted four hours and left her feeling a creative spark: "It was as if a spark was lit. " She called that project "the most Zen" she’s ever felt, and smiled when asked about spending time in the city with her costar couple Tom Holland and Zendaya.
Jupe praised Sink personally, saying, "She’s so cool, man, she’s annoyingly cool, and she’s so, like, chill and lovely and professional. I honestly really respect her in a big way. " Both have framed their shared goal plainly: to make the play entertaining and keep audiences invested in a story everyone already knows.
The production will see Sadie Sink as Juliet Capulet and Noah Jupe as Romeo Montague, the young, reckless lovers from feuding families whose instant, forbidden infatuation and secret marriage ends with their untimely deaths — deaths Icke views as entirely avoidable. The West End run opens at the Harold Pinter Theatre next month, with a noted March 16 opening on the schedule.
From a steaming-windowed Italian restaurant in west London to the BAFTA red carpet and a Harold Pinter Theatre bill, the pair’s pairing is now moving from photographs into performance, and both actors say they plan to bring professionalism, humility and a sense of fun to the West End stage.
