Star of ‘West Side Story’ Rachel Zegler Wasn’t Invited to the Oscars
Despite its critical success including several Academy Award nominations, the star of Spielberg’s West Side Story took to social media to say that she wasn’t on the guest list for this year’s Oscars.
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Rachel Zegler, who plays Maria in the film took to social media this weekend to share some images of her wearing formal attire. In the comments, a fan wrote “Can’t wait to see what you’ll be wearing on Oscar Night.” The actress was quick to respond, “I’m not invited so sweatpants and my boyfriend’s flannel.”
If you’ve been following along with MickeyBlog, you’ll know that ABC will be broadcasting this year’s Academy Awards on March 27th. West Side Story was nominated in several categories including Best Picture.
However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that the entire cast is invited. As The Hollywood Reporter points out. Each nominee and presenter are offered a pair of tickets but other tickets come out of allotments that go to the individual studios.
Though its easy to see why Rachel Zegler wasn’t including on the guest list its also quite shocking given that she was the female lead in one of this year’s nominated films. In addition to its Best Picture nomination, West Side Story also earned a nomination for Best Supporting Actress (Ariana DeBose.) Zegler was not nominated for her performance in the film but has previously won the Golden Globe for Best Actress for her turn as Maria.
If you’ve been followed along with MickeyBlog you’ll know that Zegler will next take on the leading roll in Disney’s live-action version of Snow White.
There’s still time, we hope to be back with the news that an Academy Award invite showed up in Rachel Zegler’s mailbox. Keep following along with us and we’ll keep you posted.
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