Sadie Sink Dominates Social Media With Romeo & Juliet Debut and Spider-Man: Brand New Day Trailer

If you weren’t keeping tabs on Sadie Sink lately, you missed a lot. The actress best known for playing Max Mayfield in Stranger Things is having what might be the most impressive stretch of any young star right now, and the internet has fully taken notice.

Her new West End production of Romeo & Juliet opened earlier this month at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London, and a video from the curtain call spread rapidly across social media. The clip captured Sink and co-star Noah Jupe taking their bows, and fans have been losing their minds over the pair’s chemistry ever since. The production is directed by Robert Icke, who has described his approach as an emotionally charged, intimate take on love and innocence. The run has already been extended due to popular demand and now continues through June 20. For anyone who didn’t know, Sink is no theater newcomer. She previously earned a Tony Award nomination for her Broadway performance in John Proctor Is the Villain, so this West End debut feels less like a gamble and more like a long-overdue coronation.

Adding even more fuel to the buzz, the first trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day also dropped this past week, and Sink is in that too. Marvel is still keeping her character’s identity tightly under wraps, but the trailer strongly implies her character is a psychic puppet-master of sorts, controlling the bodies of others. Fans have pointed to at least three moments in the trailer that appear to feature her, including a shot of a young woman strapped to a chair with metal restraints around her wrists and a scene where the walls of a contained room dramatically lift off the ground.

The biggest theory making the rounds? That Sink is playing Jean Grey, one of the original X-Men and a powerful telepath and telekinetic, with many fans noting that the timing feels perfect as Marvel’s Multiverse Saga winds down and the next era is expected to center on mutants. A leaked line that Marvel apparently cut from the trailer has only added to the frenzy: Sink’s character reportedly warned Spider-Man, “You’re a mess, Spider-Man. Don’t get in my way. Otherwise, it won’t just be your friends who don’t remember who Peter Parker is.”

Sink herself has called keeping the details of her role “torture,” and revealed during a January appearance on The Tonight Show that she actually learned she had been cast through fan theories circulating online.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day hits theaters on July 31. In the meantime, Sadie Sink is performing eight shows a week in London, and she’s somehow still managing to break the internet from the stage. Not a bad week to be Sadie Sink.