Despite the passage of time and the splashy release of Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story" remake, a 2020 sexual assault allegation still lingers around star Ansel Elgort. It's an allegation his female co-stars were just called upon to address.
Nine months after filming on the musical wrapped, in June 2020, a woman tweeted that the actor had assaulted her in 2014 (when she was 17 and he was 20). Elgort asserted at the time that he had "never and would never assault anyone." The pandemic news cycle progressed, the musical's release was pushed back and Elgort managed to avoid addressing it again in his limited promotion of the buzzy film late last year.
The 27-year-old attended the New York premiere in November, participated in group interviews and appeared on "The Late Late Show" to plug the movie, all the while avoiding the topic. But his benign interview with James Corden didn't deter the critics who posted in the video's YouTube comments section, calling out the actor for carrying on as if the allegation didn't exist.
