Sadie Sink Stuns For EE72
Sadie Sink is featured in a new article for EE72. The young actress sat down with the outlet to promote her West End production of Romeo & Juliet. Highlights from her interview are below.
On bringing the character of Juliet to a modern audience: “In my early conversations with Rob [Icke] about Juliet, it wasn’t what I had seen of her in any productions or what you most commonly associate with her. It isn’t that they were wrong in any way, but I think there’s just so much more to her. I wouldn’t say there’s anything modern about our take on her. In the beginning, I envisioned her on the balcony pining over someone. But reading the play with a new perspective was interesting. At the beginning, she’s completely asleep. Falling in love wakes her up and brings out this internal life she’s had festering under the surface. She’s highly emotionally intelligent. There’s a darkness to her and a strangeness to her that would make sense, given her life and family trauma. It’s all written there in the text for you. You find all of this in her soliloquies, which is why Shakespeare has her soliloquise so much. She has such a rich inner world and it takes falling in love and having agency over who she falls in love with to evoke it. I think it is so reflective of what it feels like to fall in love for the first time. Everything’s just heightened.”
On life after wrapping Stranger Things: “I guess working is a good distraction from it. I really was super emotional after we wrapped. On our final day of filming, I was just an endless well of tears. Once it was released, it felt like that was the last, final step. It’s been almost 10 years of my life, and I owe everything to that show, the platform and the opportunities it gave me. That character and the people helped shape who I am today. It’s a hard thing to say goodbye to. I don’t think I ever really have to, though, which is the good thing. I said goodbye to being on set, but as far as the character and the impact of the show, that’s something I’m going to take with me forever.”
You can check out even more from her interview here. You can check out Sadie in Romeo & Juliet now through June 20.
