Michelle Obama is reflecting on the day the Obama family’s life changed forever. On Thursday, the former FLOTUS shared some throwback photos of the day Barack Obama announced his candidacy for President of the United States.
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Rachel Zegler had the ultimate New Jersey experience.
The Jersey native recalled having none other than Bruce Springsteen come to watch her film “West Side Story” and call her “Jersey girl”.
“Bruce Springsteen came three times, and he came to see me sing ‘I Feel Pretty.’ He had his Aviators on, and he’s like, ‘Gotta see the Jersey girl sing.’ And I just peed my pants,” she said during a visit to “The Graham Norton Show”. “I was losing my mind. That day, I could not go up and talk to him. It was him and Stephen Sondheim.”
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Not only was the OG West Side Story composer there, composer John Williams, Barak Obama and Michelle Obama were also watching.
“John turns to Barak Obama and says ‘well what do you think?’, and I’m like ‘what does it matter what he thinks, he was the President of the United States,'” Zegler added. “It was the most ridiculous, I can’t even believe I was sitting in that room.”
Zegler, who landed the role at only 16, shared that she was “one of 30,000 people” that auditioned for the role of Maria.
“I auditioned for a year,” she said. “It was nine times.”
“There was a period of time where it was silence and I was like ‘well, I didn’t get that s**t,” Zegler joked.
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Even once landing the role she asked Steven Spielberg if she could still do her Senior Year musical Shrek: The Musical where she played Princess Fiona.
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Michelle Obama is reflecting on the day the Obama family’s life changed forever. On Thursday, the former FLOTUS shared some throwback photos of the day Barack Obama announced his candidacy for President of the United States.
Michelle Obama took a walk down memory lane on Thursday with an emotional Instagram post which sparked a huge reaction from fans. The former First Lady of the United States of America posted a photo of herself and her husband, Barack Obama, and their daughters, Sasha and Malia. MORE: How Barack and Michelle Obama dealt with daughter's very difficult health diagnosisIn the throwback image, the family were wrapped up against the cold and beaming for the cameras. WATCH: Michelle Obama opens up about life without daughters Malia and SashaShe explained the reason behind the photo in her post, which had fans commenting with strings of hearts and crying emojis. "I'll never forget the day that Barack announced his candidacy for president in Springfield," she wrote. "February 10, 2007 was bitter cold — about 12 degrees.
Alice Cooper shared his distaste for mixing music with politics in a new interview, explaining that he thinks “rock ‘n’ roll should be anti-political”.In the conversation with Creative Loafing Tampa Bay the shock rock legend was asked how his relationship with the controversial right-wing rocker, Ted Nugent is “holding up right now”.“Ted and I grew up together in Detroit, and he’s always been the mouth that roared. When he gets going, nobody can stay with him.
Michelle Obama is sharing stories of individuals who are making a difference in communities across the country. She shared a black and white photo by Chicago based photographer Antonio Dickey and wrote, “This is a month of celebration—a time to not only reflect on the heroes in our history books, but to honor the Black people who are quietly working every day to improve and enrich our communities right here and now.” “Today, I’m starting with Antonio Dickey,” she continued.The photo Michelle shared was taken by Dickey when she spoke with students at a school resource event in 1991. “Back then, I was just Michelle Robinson, an assistant to Mayor Daley at City Hall,” she wrote.
breakout “West Side Story” star, 20, discussed her casting as a Latina Snow White in the upcoming Disney live-action film and the immense backlash she received.Zegler got candid with actor Andrew Garfield for Variety’s Actors on Actors roundtable where she blasted the hate.“When it was announced, it was a huge thing that was trending on Twitter for days, because all of the people were angry,” she told the “Eyes of Tammy Faye” star, 38.Garfield then quipped, “Ah, those people. The people that we need to educate.
Rachel Zegler is speaking out about the backlash around her being cast as Snow White in the upcoming live action adaptation.
Andrew Garfield (“Tick, Tick … Boom!,” “Spider-Man: No Way Home”) and Rachel Zegler (“West Side Story”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios. For more, click here.What do Andrew Garfield and Rachel Zegler have in common? To start, they both love the theater, musicals — and each other. “You are in my favorite movie of the year,” Garfield tells 20-year-old Zegler on a recent video conversation about her first film role, as Maria in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story.”“You are in my favorite movie of the year,” Zegler gushes back to Garfield about his turn as the composer Jonathan Larson in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Tick, Tick … Boom!” And she’s also a super fan of Garfield’s surprise return to playing Peter Parker in the box office phenomenon “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” a movie that made her sob.
Ted Nugent has shared his thoughts on Bruce Springsteen, labelling the ‘Born In The U.S.A.’ icon “a dirtbag”.Springsteen is a staunch Democrat whose attitude towards politics has been chiefly about depicting social conflicts, understanding the economically disadvantaged, and standing up for injustice.In 2020, he narrated a campaign advertisement for then presidential hopeful Joe Biden, and once Biden was committed to office The Boss performed ‘Land Of Hope And Dreams’ as part of a TV special honouring Biden’s inauguration. He also started a podcast last year with former US president Barack Obama.Speaking in a recent interview, Nugent, a controversial right-wing rocker, talked about how different he and Springsteen are in terms of ideologies and their political views.“You couldn’t get further apart ideologically, politically, or truth logic and common sense wise than me, and Bruce Springsteen, but here I’ll show a little love for Bruce,” Nugent told That Jamieson Show.“Number one, I’ve been able to perform on the Conan show with the E-Street band, which is one of the greatest joys in my life.
Rachel Zegler is seemingly throwing shade at her West Side Story co-star Ansel Elgort, just a couple days after commenting on the allegations against him.
Bleachers have announced a lengthy run of North American tour dates, sprawling into the second half of 2022.Sans a brief detour through Barcelona for this year’s Primavera Sound festival, the band have 22 dates on their itinerary thus far. Each of the tour’s legs will feature unique support acts – Charly Bliss, for example, will open for the two sold-out dates in Boston where Bleachers will play their first two records in full (2014’s ‘Strange Desire’ on Thursday March 24 and 2017’s ‘Gone Now’ on Friday 25).Allison Ponthier will kick the festivities off throughout May, performing with Bleachers in Orlando, St.
are touching on the 2020 allegation made against Ansel Elgort.In June of 2020, a woman named Gabby claimed in a since-deleted post that Elgort sexually assaulted her in 2014, when she was 17. At the time, Elgort vehemently denied the sexual assault allegation, stating in a statement that they had «a brief, legal and entirely consensual relationship.»The allegation was tweeted nine months after wrapped filming and then became a topic of discussion leading up to the release.
Rachel Zegler is finally sharing her thoughts about her onscreen love interest’s sexual assault allegations.
Ansel Elgort’s “West Side Story” co-stars Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, and Rita Moreno have spoken to The Hollywood Reporter about the sexual assault allegations made against the actor.
Speaking out. Nearly two years after Ansel Elgort was accused of sexual assault, his West Side Story costars — including leading lady Rachel Zegler — are opening up about the allegations.
In June of 2020, an allegation was made against Ansel Elgort saying that he sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl back in 2014.
recent comments to Marc Maron about the upcoming remake of Disney animated classic “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” assuring him that the new movie won’t be as incendiary as imagined.Dinklage expressed concerns over this new iteration of the classic fairy tale, applauding the studio’s decision to cast Rachel Zegler, the breakout star of “West Side Story,” in the title role, while deriding the company for maintaining a tired narrative about dwarfs.“To avoid reinforcing stereotypes from the original animated film, we are taking a different approach with these seven characters and have been consulting with members of the dwarfism community. We look forward to sharing more as the film heads into production after a lengthy development period,” Disney said in a statement shared with TheWrap.Instead of dwarfs, Disney will fill the void with a group of what they describe as “magical creatures,” according to casting sheets that TheWrap has seen.
Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road, a documentary film about The Beach Boys co-founder. You can watch them below.Directed by Brent Wilson (unrelated to Brian), the documentary charts Wilson’s life and career through “a literal and metaphorical trip exploring Brian’s hometown”.In the first clip (revealed via Rolling Stone UK), Elton John discusses Wilson’s commitment to touring: “Brian will always wanna go out and perform.
EXCLUSIVE: President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have found their unscripted boss.