Rachel Zegler is going from Disney princess to Marisa Tomei‘s daughter with her newest role.
Variety reports that the New Jersey actor has been cast in the movie “She Gets it From Me.”
The dramedy, based on a true story and written by Jay Reiss (Broadway’s “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” “The Oranges”), sees Zegler’s character Nicky celebrating her engagement when she starts on the road to searching for and reconnecting with her birth mother, Charlotte.
Charlotte, played by Oscar winner Tomei, is a drug-using former punk rocker.
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Zegler, 23, who grew up in Clifton, just starred as Snow White in Disney’s live-action reimagining of its first animated movie, which was released in March.
Julia von Heinz (“Treasure,” “KaDeWe - Our Time Is Now”) will direct Zegler and Tomei, 60, who won an Academy Award in 1993 for “My Cousin Vinny” and was nominated for “The Wrestler” (2008) and “In the Bedroom” (2001).
The musically gifted Zegler, who made her Broadway debut last year in “Romeo + Juliet‚” first showed off her voice in another take on Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers: Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story" (2021).
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Zegler, an alum of Lodi’s Immaculate Conception High School, where she starred in school musicals, won a Golden Globe for her performance as Maria in “West Side Story.”
Since then, she’s racked up high-profile roles, not limited to but including the goddess Anthea in DC’s “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” (2023).
The same year, she starred as tribute Lucy Gray Baird in “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” (2023). At the end of last year, she appeared in the apocalyptic teen comedy “Y2K."
Post-“Snow White,” Zegler is also growing her theater resume.
She’ll be making her debut on London’s West End in June as Eva Perón in a reimagining of the Tony-winning musical “Evita.”
Stories by Amy Kuperinsky
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