West Side Story’s Rachel Zegler Addresses Ansel Elgort Sexual Assault Allegations: There’s Been an ‘Awakening’

Rachel Zegler and her  co-star, Josh Andres Rivera, are looking more and more like a couple!  The 20-year-old actress shared a series of pictures on Valentine’s Day, seemingly confirming their romance. “Committing Valen-crimes,” she captioned a black-and-white selfie featuring the two. Zegler kept the romantic posts going on her Instagram Story.

Rachel Zegler and her West Side Story co-star Josh Andres Rivera are officially dating! An E! News source confirmed the IRL romance on Monday just as the couple went Instagram official on Valentine’s Day. The 20-year-old made the exciting announcement by sharing an adorable black-and-white selfie along with the caption:

Ariana DeBose, who made her dream come true and needed to take a moment before meeting Hollywood legend Rita Moreno, her co-star in Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story.’The 31-year-old actress plays Anita in the 2021 film, the role that Rita played in the 1961 acclaimed musical. On a recent joint interview with the rest of the cast, the pair revealed some behind the scenes situations that took place on the set of the movie, including the moment the two stars met.DeBose said she couldn’t hide her excitement when she first met Rita as the cast was getting ready for rehearsals, “I was having a full-fledged panic attack,” DeBose confessed, “I hid underneath the bleachers for like 20 minutes until I could get myself together.”The actress had to pull herself together and prepared to meet Moreno for lunch, who gave her some sweet words of encouragement, “She calmed me down and gave me the space to feel my feelings.

Rachel Zegler has confirmed that she’s dating West Side Story co-star Josh Andres Rivera!

West Side Story received seven Oscar nominations this week and just one day after the nominations were released, there’s more big news!

Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated West Side Story will makes its streaming debut on Disney+ in the U.S. and most international countries on March 2, the streamer announced today.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorSteven Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated remake of “West Side Story” is coming to Disney Plus next month.The movie will debut on Disney Plus in the U.S. and most international countries on March 2, 2022.

Angelique Jackson Among this year’s class of Oscars first-timers is “West Side Story” star Ariana DeBose, whose show-stopping portrayal of Anita in the movie musical earned her a best supporting actress Oscar nod.“Well, a lot can happen before 9:30 a.m. on a Tuesday,” DeBose quipped, jumping on the phone with Variety just hours after learning the news.Despite all the excitement buzzing around her, DeBose feels unexpectedly calm.

K.J. Yossman On Tuesday, Ariana DeBose, Harris Dickinson, Lashana Lynch, Millicent Simmonds and Kodi Smit-McPhee were announced as the 2022 nominees for the BAFTA EE Rising Star Award.Nominees are selected for demonstrating “exceptional talent in film over the past year.” Previous winners of the award have included James McAvoy, Eva Green, Tom Hardy, Kristen Stewart, Tom Holland, Letitia Wright and Micheal Ward.The award, which is in its seventeenth year, is the only BAFTA honor to be decided by the general public, who can vote for their favorite online.Just hours after the nominations were unveiled, DeBose and Dickinson sat down with Variety to discuss their nominations.Congrats on the nominations! How are you feeling? DeBose: I’m just thrilled that I get to be here in London to celebrate this nomination and celebrate all of my fellow EE Rising Star nominees, because I am very well aware that every single one of them is massively talented and I find them all incredibly inspiring.Dickinson: Wonderful, thank you very much.

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 seemingly throwing shade at her West Side Story co-star Ansel Elgort, just a couple days after commenting on the allegations against him.

was accused of misconduct by a woman named Gabby six years prior, when she would have been 17. The film’s actors Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose and Rita Moreno addressed the accusations against the “Divergent” star in a recent joint interview with the Hollywood Reporter.Steven Spielberg’s film came out in December 2021, a year and a half after Elgort denied the claims. The “Fault in Our Stars” actor was noticeably minimized in the film’s trailers and, as noted by the Reporter, was grouped with the rest of the cast during the press tour, so interviewers could not question him independently.

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.

In June of 2020, an allegation was made against Ansel Elgort saying that he sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl back in 2014.

Rachel Zegler had the ultimate New Jersey experience.

It took some convincing for Ariana DeBose to join the cast of West Side Story!