In a cover story for Elle, Rachel Zegler, the Golden Globe breakout star of last year’s West Side Story, spoke candidly and incisively about her disappointment and the “traumatizing” periods she faced throughout the last couple years in having to answer for her co-star Ansel Elgort.
In 2020, a woman accused Elgort of sexually assaulting her in 2014 when she was 17 and he was 20 — an accusation that had loomed over the film’s success and press tour. Elgort, who denies the allegations, largely avoided doing press for the film, often leaving people like Zegler to answer for him.
