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Rachel Zegler on using her platform: “There are obviously things that are at stake by being outspoken, but nothing is worth innocent lives. My heart doesn’t have a fence around it, and if that is considered my downfall? There are worse things.”

After breaking records on Broadway, Rachel Zegler is playing her dream part on London’s West End in "Evita." No amount of bullying or scandal can change that. She talks about Evita, Jamie Lloyd, Snow White, and coming into her own with i-D's Douglas Greenwood.

In an industry of safe stuff, like IP-driven “content” and streaming-friendly movies and TV shows, part of the fun for Lloyd’s actors must be figuring out which side of the critical consensus their collaboration with him will land on. She played the vagabondish co-lead, Lucy Gray Baird, in The Hunger Games reboot The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and the headstrong romantic interest in last year’s A24 sci-fi comedy Y2K. Zegler’s post supposedly sent reps at Disney into such a spiral that, according to the Variety article, the film’s producer Marc Platt flew from Los Angeles to New York to ask her to delete it.

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