Constellations Stars Jake Gyllenhaal & Ruth Wilson Burn Bright in the New Issue of Vogue

Worlds are colliding on Broadway—film superstar Jake Gyllenhaal and West End and small screen darling Ruth Wilson are teaming up to bring Nick Payne’s ethereal two-hander Constellations to the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre beginning December 16. The Broadway newbies are smoldering in the newest issue of Vogue, and before it hits newsstands December 17, we’ve got an exclusive first look of this stunning photo of the stars before they take the stage.

There’s one thing these high-profile co-stars have in common: they’re both nervous to make their Broadway debuts. “The type of work we know we have to do is a little terrifying for both of us,” Gyllenhaal says. “Or maybe I should just speak for myself.” “No, no,” Wilson responds, laughing nervously. “You can speak for me.”

Nerves or not, both stars feel compelled to bring Payne’s drama—about a theoretical physicist and a beekeeper who meet at a party and explore multitudes of alternate universes—to life on stage. “The beauty of the play, what’s really astonishing,” says Gyllenhaal, “is that it’s not just a conceit. Ultimately it’s written from a really unconscious place, which is where I think all the most beautiful work is done—the larger part of our mind that we have yet to explore.”