Noah is featured on the cover of Tatler Magazine along with Sadie Sink to promote ‘Romeo & Juliet’. You can read their interview here and see some photoshoot images in the gallery.
In many ways, this ‘Shakespeare moment’ has been entirely accidental for both Sink and Jupe. It was Stockton-on-Tees-born Robert Icke, 39, a theatre director celebrated for his modern
reimaginings of classic texts, from Oresteia to Oedipus, who reeled them both in – Sink first, when she met with Icke in London last summer. ‘Rob has such a great way of modernising Shakespeare in a way that just enriches the original text,’ says Sink, who went to see his awards-sweeping Oedipus on Broadway. ‘Before I met him, I wasn’t really interested in doing Shakespeare,’ she says honestly, carefully unwrapping a eucalyptus lozenge and popping it in her mouth. ‘It wasn’t like Juliet was a dream role of mine. But then in re-reading it, but also reading it under the lens of Rob and his vision for it, I felt like this is actually something that I want to do and feel like I need to, right now.’ Jupe nods in agreement. ‘When I first got the audition through, I was like “Romeo and Juliet, again?”’ he winces, in mock disbelief. ‘Everyone’s done it so many times, but then within five minutes of speaking to Rob, I was like, “No, this is going to be completely fresh and new.”’
