Rachel Zegler recalled the feeling of 'having a bunch of white executives have you prove your identity to them' during her 'West Side Story' casting

As Zegler has experienced firsthand, the attacks on DEI initiatives in this country aren’t going away any time soon. “My only prayer for the future of diversity and inclusion,” she reflected to Allure, “is that we invest in and nurture talent no matter what they look like.”

Rachel Zegler has said she faced a grilling over the legitimacy of her ethnicity by “white executives” when initially in the running play Maria in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story.