Rachel Zegler | In The Chair | Who What Wear
`You know Gen Z star Rachel Zegler from her turn as Maria in West Side Story, but the megawatt talent has some highly anticipated projects on the horizon (Shazam! Fury of The Gods, Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbird and Snake, and Snow White). On the set of Who What Wear, we talked to the actress about everything from her photo shoot playlist to the beauty trends she's loving right now.
Director: Stephanie Romero
Director of Photography: Emma Penrose
Camera Operator: Zack Shorrosh
Video Editor: Collin Hughart
Sound Mixer: Ethan Gustavson
VP, Creative: Alexa Wiley
VP, Social: MacKenzie Green
Executive Director, Entertainment: Jessica Baker
Director: Stephanie Romero
Director of Photography: Emma Penrose
Camera Operator: Zack Shorrosh
Video Editor: Collin Hughart
Sound Mixer: Ethan Gustavson
VP, Creative: Alexa Wiley
VP, Social: MacKenzie Green
Executive Director, Entertainment: Jessica Baker
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00:00No, I cannot tell you anything about the new Snow White movie.
00:04I've been sworn to secrecy.
00:06Hi, Who Won't Wear.
00:07This is Rachel Segler.
00:08I think my perfect photoshoot pump-up jam would be Manicure by Lady Gaga.
00:24I think Artpop is such a beautiful album and doesn't get enough love, doesn't get enough
00:29attention, and I think Manicure is my favorite song off of it.
00:35I love to drink as much water as I possibly can on a photoshoot because you're standing
00:38in the same position sometimes for way too long, you start to go a little bit crazy,
00:42water will wake you right back up.
00:43I'm not a huge coffee drinker.
00:45If I was, I'd probably drink coffee too, but I don't.
00:48I don't have a lot of snacks on photoshoots.
00:50I'm really scared.
00:51Look at me.
00:52I'm wearing a white suit.
00:53just too messy to possibly eat snacks while in very fancy clothing that I do not own.
01:00For pre-shoot ritual, I don't have many, but I feel like the low hum of conversation is
01:06very important to me to just keep my brain awake and to wake everybody up in the morning.
01:11Just bring some good conversation, catch up with my team, my glam team, my styling team.
01:16It's very nice.
01:18Pre-shoot ritual would probably be taking a nap in the car ride home and then going
01:24home and falling asleep on the couch.
01:28My signature scent nowadays is probably Miss Dior.
01:32I love the way Miss Dior smells.
01:35It's very floral and beautiful and very light.
01:39It's not too overwhelming and it's not an old lady scent, which I'm always really cognizant
01:43of when picking fragrances out.
01:47I'm most looking forward to being back with my glam team.
01:50It's been like a year since we all were together and everything's kind of amping back up with
01:56Shazam 2 coming out, so we're kind of just easing back into spending every waking moment
02:01with each other and I'm glad that we get to start doing that here.
02:06I'm probably most excited to wear this meow number that I've never worn them before, so
02:12I'm really excited to wear them in today's shoot.
02:17I feel like I really vibe with the ... I feel like I'm ancient when it comes to keeping
02:23up with trends.
02:24I have no idea what is trendy ever.
02:27I'm so bad at it, but I feel like the clean girl aesthetic, whatever that means, is a
02:34thing.
02:35And then there was also this lip trend that I think Hailey Bieber was talking about that
02:40Latinas have been doing for so long with the liner and gloss.
02:44I'm always in with that trend and anything that allows me to wear a gloss and just some
02:50mascara and makes me feel confident to leave the house.
02:54I don't know if I've been influenced by a lot of trends, but I'm a big fan of everybody
03:02who likes to express themselves in any art form and I feel like makeup is such an incredible
03:07art form where people get to express themselves.
03:09I've been doing my makeup since I was way too young to be doing my makeup and my mom
03:14let me rifle through her makeup bag and play, so I'm always just supportive rather than
03:21influenced by makeup artists and kids who are out there just expressing themselves via
03:27their makeup or their hair or their fashion.
03:32I feel like my most memorable day on Shazam 2 Fury of the Gods was probably my last day
03:39of shooting, which I can't necessarily spoil for you now because it was a very pivotal
03:45day of shooting, but we all got to be together in the same frame for a superhero shoot.
03:52It's not always common for you to actually be able to look your fellow scene partners
03:56in the eye.
03:57Sometimes they're just tennis balls or pink X's of tape on a blue screen, so it was really
04:01nice for all of us to be together and it was very emotional because it was the day
04:06a lot of us wrapped.
04:08No, I cannot tell you anything about the new Snow White movie, but if I could I would tell
04:15you everything about the new Snow White movie because I'm very excited about it.
04:19But I did get a text message yesterday that the first rough cut is finished, which is
04:25so exciting, which means we're just in the process of test screening and seeing what
04:29needs to be re-shot or ADR'd or redone and that was such a wild experience from start
04:37to finish.
04:38I can't wait to share it with people and it's going to be in theaters in March of 2024.
04:44I think of all the characters I've played, Lucy Grey-Baird in The Hunger Games Ballad
04:51of Songbirds and Snakes has, let me say that three times fast, she has the most incredible
04:56beauty journey because she's got the looks in The Hob, fans of the book will understand
05:02what I'm talking about, but she's got looks when she's performing, she's got looks, and
05:06then in the games she's very dirty and sweaty and all these things and then there's a scene
05:11in a lake where I get to be completely natural.
05:14So I think that was probably my favorite beauty journey because I got to do so many different
05:19looks on that set and her beauty and her vanity is very important to her and the makeup
05:27artist and the makeup designer Sherri Lawrence and I really came up with a story for each
05:32thing that she would put on her face, so like her lipstick was made out of Beagle Juice
05:37and all of these different things because you have to justify all of these makeup trends
05:41that she's doing in the confines of a kind of post-apocalyptic setting, a very dystopian
05:48setting.
05:49Bye Who Won't Wear, thank you for hanging out with me on set.