WEST SIDE STORY Cast Interviews: Spielberg, Rachel Zegler, Ansel Elgort, Mike Faist, Ariana DeBose 

Thanks so much for watching my interviews with the cast of West Side Story. It is a STUNNING film and if there's an Oscar for 'best use of fabric in a movie', THIS one has it hands down (those skirts!!!!!) SIDENOTE: I was NOT scheduled to talk to Steven Spielberg OR Rachel Zegler (crazy, I know...but their schedule was packed)...I kept pushing a little, especially since Steven and I share an Arizona connection (he grew up here). The stars aligned and I was given one question! Fortunately - Mr. Spielberg helped make it TWO - you'll see... Feel free to SUBSCRIBE and I'll keep the content coming..some other 'biggies' in the works!

I cried when Riff died. He was such a villainous character, but Mike Faist played him with such emotional depth. He and Ariana DeBose were revelations to me. She broke my heart singing A Boy Like That after having to identify Bernardo's body. What a gut punch. Those two were the standouts of the whole movie for me. I loved all the characters though. The re-imagining of Cool was perfect. It's exactly as Ansel describes it. Just wonderful!

The opening with Mike and Ansel throwing paper planes is really cute! Gives me hope that their brotherly bond will shine on screen as Tony and Riff.

All the actors and the movies deserve an award. Youth at it's very best.

David Alveras YOU WERE BRILLIANT!

God mike faist is adorable

Mike’s jawline could cut rock

Riffs death hits me the hardest ever time...this time depressed me for days. Thank you mike faist

Luv this movie so much (OBSESSED truthfully!) esp Ansel as Tony and the rest of the amazingly talented cast!!! Been watching all the different interviews, and I must say…Tara, yours is one of the best! Thank you for sharing this…🤗

The dress question was so good. It wasn’t dumb because I was also very curious about that. Thank you for asking it!

Such a great interview with brilliant questions I had myself!

Questions so good Spielberg says ""go one more", wonderful.

Thank you for this really enjoy it. Looking forward to see this movie 🎬 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Cool is dance of the year, as well as the movie.

Advice to Ansel and Mike, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT wear those Jets jackets around Christopher Walken.

tara you always deliver

I loved this rendition of Cool. I wish they hadn’t taken away the real brotherhood of Riff and Tony. He said sperm to worm to someone else like it didn’t really matter.

Spielburger says that couldn't find genuine Puerto Rican women who know how to dance and sing to play neither Maria nor Anita? Really? Hypocrite!

New West Side Story: 1. Good idea to have Rita Marino inserted into the Steven Spielberg script of *West Side Story* 2. Best Actress role for Oscar nomination for Spielberg's version will be Maria (Rachel Zegler) and then Anita (Ariana DeBose) for supporting Oscar nomination. I think Rachel Zegler's acting for Maria, was better than Natalie Wood in Robert's Wise production. 3. Second choice for best supporting actress: Rita Marino. (yes again) 4. I did not like any of the character actors choice for either the Jets or Sharks in this Spielberg version. 5. I did not like the first act of the Spielberg version as much as the Robert Wise version, but the second act of Spielberg's version made up for the 1st act's shortcomings. Spielberg's first act of his movie was too, too, dark. 6. My choice for which movie was better would be the flawless *1st* West Side Story. Robert Wise was the better Director in this for the 1st Movie version of the play. However the second act of Spielberg's version made tears come from my eyes, but don't tell anybody as I don't want my manhood questioned. 7. In the first movie the Jet gang gave respect for the little girl playing on the ground and walked around her play area. In the Spielberg version the Jets ripped up the little girls artwork on the ground. I could not get behind the Jets after that. 8. The dance scenes in both versions were equally good. 9. Spielberg claimed he did not want to copy the first, Robert Wise version, however he did in the opening. In the first, Wise version, we have an aerial shot flying over Manhattan, in Spielberg's version we have an aerial shot flying over the demolished section of the gang area with same intro music. 10. Spielberg's version of West Side Story, should be nominated for *Best Picture* Oscar this year, however from the *WOKE* Hollywood, they might choose another low budget foreign movie made with no whites in it, that nobody will see, for diversity's sake. Then that will remind me of Marxist Korean movie (looked like a college student made film) winning Best Picture over "1917" a real professional movie. And like Spielberg's movie, "Saving Private Ryan" that didn't win Best Picture, which it should have, over that terrible love movie, again, that nobody saw. 11. Why couldn't Spielberg use any other race besides Puerto Rican? That was a racist decision on WOKE Spielberg. High class acting is art, that a great actor could pull it off. Spielberg now denies race to play any role unless they are the same race of the character portrayed? This is a slam in the face of all actors. Example, he could have used actors from any South American country as long as they looked Puerto Rican. Come on man! Spielberg trying to be WOKE is a racist to all other promising actors. 13. What was this freak dark character tranny character that used to be a tom boy girl in the Robert Wise motive? We could see in the Robert Wise movie that this was a tom boy girl. However in this movie, we don't know who this scary creature from hell was in Spielberg's version. Spielberg was again trying to be WOKE by picking a tranny freak character from this years 2021 to by making the LGBTQ people happy. That demonic freak character was a bust. 14. There will be other Oscar nominations beside best picture for this one. 15. From Breitbart: Estimated production budget of West Side Story: 7 Biggest Woke Box Office Busts of 2021: ‘West Side Story,’ ‘Eternals,’ and More. $100 million - Worldwide gross so far: $36.6 million. Steven Spielberg went full woke by not including English subtitles in Spanish-language scene, saying he did not want to give “English the power over the Spanish.” If Spielberg is going that far then what the hell is this white Jew doing directing Latinos? Actress Rachel Zegler further alienated audiences by shaming Americans who don’t speak Spanish. The mainstream media pushed this one hard, but moviegoers everywhere refused to fall for it. “Everything woke turns to shit,” former President Donald Trump said this year. Nowhere is this truer than in Hollywood, where the public’s rejection of woke movies can be measured in the tens of millions of dollars that studios are losing at the box office. No matter how hard left-wing Hollywood pushes woke-ism - and their allies in the entertainment media insist we like it - the American public isn’t having it anymore, sending a clear and unambiguous message with their wallets. Will Hollywood learn its lesson? Of course not, but that’s their problem and it’s part of the fun. This year, woke Hollywood movies tanked left and right as audiences wary of paying for a social justice lecture decided to stay away.