Rachel Zegler shades Ansel Elgort by cropping him out of photo

[poisoned_summer]

Rachel Zegler (20) has made a sly dig at her West Side Story co-star Ansel Elgort, who has been accused of sexual assault.

A fan posted a photo of Rachel in an embrace with Steven Spielberg as Ansel can be seen in the background.

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- this is me trying (@ow_ally) January 28, 2022
Rachel then replied to her fan by reposting

Comments

[matsaurus]

I would also crop that shirt out of my photos.

[gillenvillain]

mte

That is one fugly shirt. Damn, son.

So can we crop Ansel out of everything now too? He needs to go away. Such a terrible actor.

[hellcatshalala]

she wants so bad to be cool with the youths

[la_petite_singe]

She...she is the youths.

[sarafina126]

She is literally 20

Sorry, replied to the wrong person! I agree with you 😂

[quinnmorgendorf]

She's really talented and based on interviews seems very poised and enthusiastic, especially for someone so young and new to the industry.

But for her own sake she should probably get off sm or just post about her projects. Twitter seems to have it out for her right now.

[the_pinkdress]

I would’ve thought this was something the youth on Twitter would love.

[littlekasumi]

i want to say that another reason people are coming at her so hard for the crop is that earlier this week, her, rita, and ari’s responses to ansel’s rape accusations were released and there was a lot to be desired for what they said. no they’re not responsible for his behavior, but when these two responses are put together, it looks weird.

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honestly, i think i preferred it when y’all were mum on the topic of ansel elgort cause this is bad. like the first time yall directly address ansel elgort being a rapist and it gets brushed away as “no one really knows what happened” + “wrong to take sides”? https://t.co/sEUiHYdRyt pic.twitter.com/z09ZXruzGG
- sk (@kirkxxs) January 26, 2022

[genbu_no_miko24]

”I preferred when y’all stayed mum”

Should they get asked again and say “no comment” then y’all will criticize them for not believing victims and not doing enough.

Meanwhile Ansel and the male crew aren’t getting asked anything or being pressured giving a good PR statement. Must be nice to not have to carefully think out your words for the internet police.

[littlekasumi]

the quote came from the issue with the cover rachel is posting, though. i think people are allowed to be disappointed in a wishy washy reply of ‘i hope the (alleged) victim AND rapist are allowed peace’ when directly confronting her. steven and ansel aren’t on social media so ‘they’re getting away with it’ in the sense that people can’t knock on their virtual door.

the incident is obviously not their fault, but i do get fans having a long paper trail of unforced errors on her part.

[genbu_no_miko24]

She didn’t say anything about peace and mentioned “I hope they are given opportunities to answer for themselves”

The article actually mentions that Spielberg declined to comment on the topic

How come the tweeter and everybody else choosing to ignore that part? Where is the “ Spielberg doesn’t support victims!” outcry? Unlike Rachel and Ariana he is a huge power player with NOTHING to lose in comparison but y’all concentrate on the women to be perfect. 🤨