

"There are things to improve on and things to address. I don't think any of us would ever try to recreate that," said Zegler, 20. "That film exists as this incredible piece of pop culture that everyone has seen and been affected by in some way.
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Never miss a story - sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. In August, Zegler told Town & Country the Spielberg film wasn't "trying to recreate, frame for frame, the 1961 movie." Rita Moreno, who starred in the 1961 classic, also makes a return to the musical in the new role of Valentina, a store owner who offers Tony work after he attempts to rebuild his life following a prison stint. The new adaptation stars Hamilton's Ariana DeBose as Anita, newcomer Rachel Zegler as Maria, Ansel Elgort as Tony and David Alvarez as Bernardo.


Spielberg's reimagining of the classic Broadway musical comes 60 years after the 1961 film debuted in theaters. Marvel's Eternals was also banned from the Gulf countries for featuring the MCU's first gay superhero Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) and the kiss he shares with his husband Ben (played by Haaz Sleiman). RELATED: West Side Story Remake Praised by Critics: 'Spielberg Topped the Original' (Homosexuality and LGBTQ rights are outlawed in those countries.) The decision to ban the film was due to the transgender character of Anybodys, played by non-binary actor Iris Menas, THR reported. The outlet reported the film wasn't granted a release certificate in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, while the UAE, Qatar and Oman requested cuts from the film that Disney refused to make. The musical adaptation, which is out Friday, has been banned in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman or Kuwait, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Steven Spielberg's West Side Story will not be dancing into theaters in the Gulf countries overseas. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
