Rachel Zegler’s life drastically modified when she was solid because the lead in 2021’s “West Side Story.” The 22-year-old actor was rapidly catapulted into the general public eye because of her simple expertise, which was seen throughout an open casting name for the remake of the traditional musical. While the opportunity of making lifelong associates together with her costars — together with Josh Andrés Rivera, Ariana DeBose, and Rita Moreno — doubtless crossed her thoughts, Zegler might not have been conscious that she’d additionally meet her future boyfriend whereas engaged on the mission.
Zegler and Rivera went public with their romance in February 2022. A month later, she thanked him in a Twitter publish following her finest actress win on the National Board of Review gala. “I wish to extend my thanks to the love of my life, who I was blessed enough to meet on the set of this film many moons ago,” she wrote. “Thank you for holding my hand in my dreams and in my reality. I love doing life with you. Thanks for making me laugh.”
In an April 2022 interview with Elle, Zegler shared how Rivera positively impacts her life. “There’s always this deep understanding of what I go through. Since [his experience was] on a different scale, he’s able to bring me back to earth and tell me when it really doesn’t matter,” she stated. “Because he’s removed from it to a certain degree, he’s able to just snap me out of it, and tell me to stop checking my phone, or remind me of what actually matters, and remind me to be present, and to not focus on the opinions of 3,000 faceless strangers on the internet.”
Zegler and Rivera are set to play costars as soon as once more in a Hunger Games prequel, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” through which the previous stars as tribute Lucy Gray Baird and the latter as Capitol scholar Sejanus Plinth. When manufacturing on the movie wrapped in November 2022, Zegler wrote of Rivera in an extended Instagram publish the place she additionally thanked the solid and crew: “to my favorite actor in the world, josh rivera, i love you so much. more and more each day. i am so glad we did this together.”
Ahead, this is what we learn about Zegler and Rivera’s candy romance.
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