Sadie Sink and Noah Jupes Quick Rehearsal Shock

They're about to play star-crossed lovers in a new West End production of Romeo And Juliet, but Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe say they've barely rehearsed ahead of opening night. 

The actors will tread the boards at London's Harold Pinter Theatre from March 16, with Jupe continuing a run of performances attributed to the great Bard after recently starring in director Chloé Zhao's critically acclaimed Hamnet. 

Meanwhile, Sink is making her West End debut after completing work on Stranger Things, the hugely successful Netflix show responsible for turning her into a household name. 

The fifth and final season aired to mixed reviews in December, with Sink, 23, reprising her role as skateboarding tomboy Max Mayfield for the last time. 

 'It feels more like a relief that it’s complete and just such a joy to share it with people,' she told British Vogue. 'Or maybe my brain’s so scattered that I can’t actually even think about the fact that it’s over.'

She is now braced for a three month stay in the English capital while she and Jupe, 20, play doomed lovers in the latest interpretation of Shakespeare's enduringly popular tragedy.

They're about to play star-crossed lovers in a new West End production of Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet, but Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe say they've only rehearsed twice 

The actors will tread the boards at London's Harold Pinter Theatre for three months, from March 16

But the actors admit they are yet to establish a working dynamic, having only rehearsed together twice.  

'We did a chemistry read together and that was, what, like an hour?' Sink revealed. 'And then the second time we met.'  

'We had to do a full-on photoshoot for it,' added Jupe, a referenced to the promotional posters currently lining tube station walls across London. 

As the demure Juliet Capulet, a 13-year old girl in Shakespeare's original text, Sink is ready for the biggest challenge of her career - and the actress says she was compelled to take it on after a four hour meeting with the play's director, Robert Icke.

'It was as if a spark was lit,' she recalled. 'You can only play her for so long.'

Unfamiliar territory for Sink, her co-star will get his second taste of Shakespeare after starring alongside Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley in Hamnet - as an actor playing Hamlet, of all things. 

The film also stars Jupe's talented younger brother Jacobi as Shakespeare's young son, whose tragic death he attempts to overcome by writing what would arguably become his greatest play. 

'I was expecting Jacobi to do great, but when I saw the film I didn’t realise it would be that great and that pivotal,' said Jupe. 

Sink is making her West End debut after completing work on Stranger Things , the hugely successful Netflix show responsible for turning her into a household name

The fifth and final season aired to mixed reviews in December, with Sink reprising her role as skateboarding tomboy Max Mayfield for the last time

Jupe is continuing a run of performances attributed to the great Bard after recently starring in director Chloé Zhao's critically acclaimed Hamnet

In Hamnet (pictured), Jupe stars as an actor playing Hamlet - the play inspired by the death of Shakespeare's 12-year old son 

'I’m kind of looking for the people that didn’t cry [at Hamnet] and I’m like, "You're a sociopath."' 

The film would go on to claim the award for Best Motion Picture for Drama at the Golden Globes in February, but Jupe was so convinced of its failure that he ordered an Uber before realising the film had won.  

'None of us were expecting to win,' he said. And then we won and I was like, "Oh sh*t," and ‘they were like you need to go on stage’ and I was like, "Oh, sh*t!"' 

See the full feature in the March issue of British Vogue, available via digital download and on newsstands from Tuesday February 24.