Costar couple! Rachel Zegler and Josh Andrés Rivera first related on the set of Steven Spielberg’s West Aspect Story, the place they shortly sparked a real-life romance.
Zegler earned her huge break when she landed the position of main woman Maria in Spielberg’s 2019 remake of the acclaimed musical film reverse Ansel Elgort’s Tony. Rivera, for his half, portrayed the position of supporting character Chino. Whereas Chino — one in all Maria’s fellow Sharks —was arrange as a possible suitor for the lovelorn teen, she in the end fell exhausting for rival gang chief Tony. Nonetheless, Zegler was drawn to Rivera when the cameras stopped rolling.
The pair confirmed their romance in February 2021, almost one 12 months earlier than West Aspect Story was launched in theaters. “I like Josh Andres Rivera,” the Snow White star captioned a sequence of smiling selfies of the duo by way of Twitter.
The twosome have since continued to develop in love as Zegler’s movie profession rises.
“I want to prolong my because of the love of my life, who I used to be blessed sufficient to fulfill on the set of this movie many moons in the past,” the Shazam! Fury of the Gods actress gushed of her boyfriend throughout her Nationwide Board of Overview acceptance speech in March 2022, during which her West Aspect Story efficiency took residence the Finest Actress trophy. “Thanks for holding my hand in my goals and in my actuality. I like doing life with you. Thanks for making me chortle.”
One month later, Zegler credited the Cat Individual actor for conserving her grounded when the movie’s success exploded.
“There’s all the time this deep understanding of what I’m going by. Since [his West Side Story experience was] on a distinct scale, he’s in a position to deliver me again to earth and inform me when it actually doesn’t matter,” the New Jersey native recalled to Elle in an April 2022 profile. “As a result of he’s faraway from it to a sure diploma, he’s in a position to simply snap me out of it, and inform me to cease checking my cellphone, or remind me of what truly issues, and remind me to be current, and to not deal with the opinions of three,000 faceless strangers on the web.”
Zegler and Rivera are set to share the display once more within the forthcoming Starvation Video games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Whereas the Golden Globe nominee will star as protagonist Lucy Grey Baird, her beau will tackle the position of Starvation Video games mentor Sejanus Plinth.
“At all times and ceaselessly happy with my Joshua,” Zegler gushed by way of Twitter in June 2022 after Rivera’s casting information was confirmed by Lionsgate.
As soon as manufacturing on The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes wrapped the next November, Zegler paid tribute to the movie — and her expertise working alongside her boyfriend.
“I’m, as soon as once more, ceaselessly grateful for an additional eternity captured on digicam,” she wrote by way of Instagram on the time, thanking the movie’s solid and crew. “To my favourite actor on the earth, Josh Rivera, I like you a lot, an increasing number of every day. I’m so glad we did this collectively.”
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