Rachel Zegler Says This Year 'Could Be the Biggest Year' of Her Life: 'So Grateful' (Exclusive)
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10/25/2024 06:00 PM
Rachel Zegler is starring on Broadway for the first time and has two movies premiering in the next six months, including Disney's live-action 'Snow White'
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Rachel Zegler on Oct. 24, 2024Rachel Zegler is looking ahead and loving what she sees.
While speaking with PEOPLE at the opening night of her Broadway debut in Romeo + Juliet, Zegler, 23, says she is "surrounded by really wonderful people" as she addresses her future, which includes the premiere of her A24 comedy Y2K in December and Disney's live-action reimagining of Snow White, which opens in March.
"I am surrounded by very, very loving, grounding people. My best friends, my mom and dad are very, very important and instrumental in keeping me sane," Zegler says. "And I also have a really cute dog and that honestly gives my life structure beyond what this world is bringing me."
"So it could be the biggest year of my life and it is that I'm grateful, but as long as I get to go home to that sweet little face and feed him dinner and cook for the next week, then I'm very, very happy," she adds.
Zegler, best known for her breakout performance in Steven Spielberg's 2021 movie musical West Side Story and playing Lucy Gray Baird in 2023's The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, stars in Romeo + Juliet alongside Kit Connor. The adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic romantic tragedy is directed by Tony winner Sam Gold, with music by Jack Antonoff.
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Rachel Zegler on Oct. 24, 2024Zegler was cast as Snow White in the upcoming Disney movie back in 2021; she costars in that film with Gal Gadot, who portrays the iconic fairy tale's Evil Queen. The movie, directed by Marc Webb, wrapped filming in July 2022. Disney unveiled a first trailer for the film at D23 on Aug. 9. that teases the movie's seven dwarfs and Zegler's singing voice as the iconic princess.
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Before that movie arrives in theaters, Zegler will appear in the apocalyptic comedy Y2K, directed by Saturday Night Live alumnus Kyle Mooney.
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Jack Antonoff, Rachel Zegler, Kit Connor, Sam Gold, and Sonya Tayeh on Oct. 24, 2024The comedy costars Jaeden Martell (IT, Knives Out) The Kid Laroi, Fred Durst, Lachlan Watson, Daniel Zolghadri, Eduardo Franco, Mason Gooding, Lauren Balone, Tim Heidecker and Alicia Silverstone, and is inspired by the "year 2000 problem," or potential computer errors that were expected when clocks turned to the new millennium back on New Year's Day 2000.
"On the last night of 1999, two high school juniors crash a New Years Eve party, only to find themselves fighting for their lives in this dial-up disaster comedy," reads an official synopsis for that film.
Zegler and Connor costar with Tommy Dorfman, Gabby Beans, Nihar Duvvuri, Jasai Chase-Owens, Daniel Bravo Hernández, Solá Fádìran, Taheen Modak and Gían Pérez in Romeo + Juliet at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater
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