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What We Know About Rachel Zegler and Josh Andrés Rivera’s Romance
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Rachel Zegler‘s life drastically changed when she was cast as the lead in 2021’s “West Side Story.” The 21-year-old actor was quickly catapulted into the public eye thanks to her undeniable talent, which was noticed during an open casting call for the remake of the musical. While the possibility of making lifelong friends with her costars, including Josh Andrés Rivera, Ariana DeBose, and Rita Morena, likely crossed her mind, Zegler may not have been aware that she’d also meet her future boyfriend while working on the project.
Zegler and Rivera went public with their romance in February 2022, and a month later, the actor proved she and Rivera were still going strong after thanking him in a Twitter post following her best actress win at the National Board of Review gala. “I wish to extend my thanks to the love of my life, who I was blessed enough to meet on the set of this film many moons ago,” she wrote. “Thank you for holding my hand in my dreams and in my reality. I love doing life with you. Thanks for making me laugh.”
In an April 2022 interview with Elle, Zegler shared how Rivera positively impacts her life. “There’s always this deep understanding of what I go through. Since [his experience was] on a different scale, he’s able to bring me back to earth and tell me when it really doesn’t matter,” she said. “Because he’s removed from it to a certain degree, he’s able to just snap me out of it, and tell me to stop checking my phone, or remind me of what actually matters, and remind me to be present, and to not focus on the opinions of 3,000 faceless strangers on the internet.”
To find out more about their sweet romance, scroll this gallery.
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Josh Andrés Rivera
While Rivera and Zegler may have met while filming “West Side Story,” it wasn’t until February 2022 that they confirmed their relationship on Instagram in honor of Valentine’s Day. From then on, their social media pages began to fill up with tributes about each other – but they were hinting at their romance long before their confirmation.
Two months prior to going public, the couple teased their relationship on social media, showing that they spent Christmas together. “Spending christmas eve with a man i have never met before,” Zegler joked alongside a series of Instagram pics featuring Rivera. “Maybe you know him, he seems pretty cool- like he could be the love child of iron man and john wick, idk though.”
Later that same month, Zegler and Rivera attended the Oscars together, where the movie that brought them together was nominated for best picture. Their red carpet appearances would continue the following month, when they stepped out for the Grammys.
In June 2022, it was announced that Zegler and Rivera would once again grace the big screen together when they were cast in the Hunger Games prequel movie, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.”
And Zegler once again praised Rivera in a post in November 2022, writing, “to my favorite actor in the world, josh rivera, i love you so much. more and more each day. i am so glad we did this together.”
