Rachel Zegler‘s life drastically modified when she was solid because the lead in 2021’s “West Side Story.” The 21-year-old actor was shortly catapulted into the general public eye due to her plain expertise, which was observed throughout an open casting name for the remake of the musical. While the potential of making lifelong pals together with her costars, together with Josh Andrés Rivera, Ariana DeBose, and Rita Morena, probably 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, and a month later, the actor proved she and Rivera have been nonetheless going robust after thanking him in a Twitter submit following her finest actress win on the National Board of Review gala. “I want to lengthen my due to the love of my life, who I used to be blessed sufficient to satisfy on the set of this movie many moons in the past,” she wrote. “Thank you for holding my hand in my desires and in my actuality. I really like doing life with you. Thanks for making me chortle.”
In an April 2022 interview with Elle, Zegler shared how Rivera positively impacts her life. “There’s all the time this deep understanding of what I am going by. Since [his experience was] on a distinct scale, he is capable of carry me again to earth and inform me when it actually would not matter,” she stated. “Because he is faraway from it to a sure diploma, he is capable of simply snap me out of it, and inform me to cease checking my telephone, or remind me of what really issues, and remind me to be current, and to not give attention to the opinions of three,000 faceless strangers on the web.”
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