Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are enthusiastic supporters of Sadie Sink as she hits a new career milestone.
Swift and Kelce, both 36, attended the Romeo & Juliet play at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London on Thursday, May 7.
Sink, 24, made her West End debut in the production which opened in March. She is currently starring as Juliet, while Noah Jupe portrays Romeo.
In fan videos shared via social media, Swift and Kelce can be seen giving Sink and the rest of the cast and crew a standing ovation at the conclusion of the play.
The same night, the “Shake it Off” singer and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end were spotted leaving Indian restaurant Gymkhana. In photos obtained by TMZ, they were snapped holding hands as they left the London hotspot on their date night.
Swift and Sink previously collaborated on the singer’s All Too Well: The Short Film, released in 2021. The Stranger Things alum and Dylan O’Brien, 34, starred as troubled love interests in the music video that accompanied the 10-minute version of Swift’s song, “All Too Well.”
Appearing at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2022, Swift spoke about why she chose the actress to play the role.
Taylor Swift and Sadie Sink. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
“Sadie has this versatility, because I just really wanted someone who could go from that idealism and that unbroken spirit and we see that,” she said of Sink. “It’s so palpable when we first meet her, and I wanted to show their closeness with handheld shots. I wanted to be so close we could count the freckles.”
Swift continued: “And then as things transpire and things fall apart, I wanted our shots to reflect the remoteness that she feels — this desperate isolation that she feels — because her world opened up to this incredible big passionate intense love and then it just, all of a sudden, overnight it boiled down to nothing and the floor fell through and she just feels far away from all her friends and her old life because she’s been in this adult mature world that she never felt quite fit either.”
In multiple interviews, Sink has praised Swift and opened up about how surreal it felt to be handpicked by the Grammy winner for the role.
“Like I didn’t know she knew I existed!” she gushed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in May 2022. “And if she would have asked me to be a tree in something I would have said yes in a heartbeat.”
