Rachel Zegler is the star of West Side Story,
one of the ten movies nominated for a Best Picture Oscar at tomorrow’s
show, and also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her role in the
reboot, but the only way she’s going to the show is as someone’s plus-one or
perhaps as a seat filler. You see, the Academy failed to invite Zegler to the show,
a terrible miscarriage of justice she revealed on social media.’
Now, it’s not mandatory for performers from Best
Picture-nominated movies to automatically be invited to the ceremony, but
Zegler sure did want to go, and the movie, though not a huge hit, was well-received,
as was her performance.
And, since it appears we have a theme of thirsty celebrities
this week, what do you think Rachel Zegler did? She started on Instagram where
she posted a series of pictures, including several of her at the BAFTAs last
week, which caused several fans to ask what she’d be wearing to the Oscars. Rachel told them she wasn’t invited, and so she’ll be watching from
her living room instead, but then, to play nice, said there were no hard
feelings between her and the Academy.
UPDATE: Zegler’s thirsty woe-is-me Tweets and Insta
stories paid off, because as soon as the news went viral, an invitation was
sent Zegler’s way.
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