First Look at the Cast from Steven Spielberg's WEST SIDE STORY
Director Steven Spielberg has officially started production on West Side Story, and today we have our first photo from the film to share with you featuring the main cast.
In the middle you’ll find the two main characters – Ansel Elgort as Tony and Rachel Zegler as Maria, who wowed fans with YouTube videos of her signing.
Pictured left to right are: Jets members Anybodys (Ezra Menas), Mouthpiece (Ben Cook), Action (Sean Harrison Jones); Jets leader Riff (Mike Faist); Baby John (Patrick Higgins); Tony (Ansel Elgort) and Maria (Rachel Zegler). Then there’s Maria’s brother and Sharks leader Bernardo (David Alvarez); and Sharks members Quique (Julius Anthony Rubio), Chago (Ricardo Zayas), Chino (Josh Andrés Rivera), Braulio (Sebastian Serra), and Pipo (Carlos Sánchez Falú).
The cast also includes Ariana DeBose (Anita); Ana Isabelle (Rosalia); Corey Stoll (Lieutenant Schrank); Brian d’Arcy James (Officer Krupke); Curtiss Cook (Abe) and original West Side Story actress Rita Moreno, who plays Valentina and also serves as one of the film’s Executive Producers.
The film is an adaptation of the classic Broadway musical, which “explores young love and tensions between rival gangs the Jets and the Sharks on the streets of 1957 New York.”
As a long time fan of this musical, I’m pretty excited to see what Spielberg’s vision of it will be. I have no doubt that he’ll make a great West Side Story movie.
West Side Story will be released by on December 18th, 2020.