NEW YORK — Fresh off her breakthrough role in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” Rachel Zegler will star in Lionsgate’s planned “Hunger Games” prequel. The studio announced Tuesday that Zegler will play Lucy Gray Baird in “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” an extension of the “Hunger Games” saga that takes place decades before the adventures of …
If 2020 was a pandemic-induced pause, 2021 was when things started up again, albeit slowly and timidly. The year went quickly for Zegler, who had beat out thousands for the part of Maria in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story.” The pandemic pushed the film’s release a year but she didn’t stop. Liu smashed through the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s comfort zone …
In another timeline, Rachel Zegler would have had her breakthrough moment last December. “It’s been a year of transition,” Zegler, 20, said in a recent Zoom interview from her family’s home in Clifton, New Jersey. “I said yes and then it was like, ‘Oh, now I have to go and I have to like, walk on the carpet and trip …
