Ariana DeBose is playing Anita in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming West Side Story, and Twentieth Century Fox just revealed her first look as the iconic character.
In Spielberg’s adaptation, Debose, 28, will play the girlfriend of Bernardo, who is the leader of the Puerto Rican street gang the Sharks. In the iconic Broadway musical and film, Bernardo’s gang is at war with the street gang, the Jets, set in New York City in 1957.
DeBose rose to fame as a contestant on So You Think You Can Dance, and eventually hit the Broadway circuit, landing roles in Hamilton, Motown the...
In Spielberg’s adaptation, Debose, 28, will play the girlfriend of Bernardo, who is the leader of the Puerto Rican street gang the Sharks. In the iconic Broadway musical and film, Bernardo’s gang is at war with the street gang, the Jets, set in New York City in 1957.
DeBose rose to fame as a contestant on So You Think You Can Dance, and eventually hit the Broadway circuit, landing roles in Hamilton, Motown the...
- 7/13/2019
- by Matt McNulty
- PEOPLE.com
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