At just 24, Rachel Zegler has already seen all that a career spanning several decades has to offer. Having been at the eye of a hurricane of “anti-woke” outrage in Disney‘s Snow White in a whirlwind of a year, Zegler is now proving that the best antidote to all that negativity is a standing ovation. Having won a historic award at the prestigious Standard Theatre Awards in 2025, Zegler has announced that she is already moving on to her next horizon: a new, mysterious musical film.
The Palladium’s new queen
This comes after Zegler’s “revelatory” turn in Jamie Lloyd’s West End production of Evita, in which her turn as the ambitious Argentine leader was so good that it did not simply earn Zegler the Best Musical Performance award but reportedly won her the longest standing ovation in West End history.
For Zegler, this was a role that was very close to her heart. “You see her as a child. That’s certainly how I felt in my career.” Having seen “unearned opprobrium” from online trolls about her heritage and her starring in iconic roles, Zegler saw a lot of herself in the fickle crowds that she played to in London’s West End.
While she is currently revisiting her “theater kid” roots with concert performances of “The Last Five Years,” Zegler’s eyes are firmly set on Hollywood once again. Although she is still being tight-lipped about the details of her upcoming project at the Standard UK, her excitement is palpable.
“I’m really excited about it, and I wish I could tell you what it is because I’m working with some f—— amazing people on it,” she said during her portrait session. “But I can’t.”
The shift from the controversies of “Snow White” to the accolades of “Evita” is a turning point in the actor’s career. Whether she is belting out “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” from the balcony of a London theater with thousands of fans cheering her on or hints of her possible return to the silver screen, Zegler is clearly working with a newfound sense of “self-possession.“
While hints of her possible female-led “Hamlet” project are on her bucket list, it is clear that Zegler is not only surviving the entertainment industry but also orchestrating it.
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