The wait is finally over! The highly-anticipated Steven Spielberg remake of award-winning best picture ‘West Side Story’ is finally playing everywhere! Arguably one of the best musicals in history, the adaptation of the 1957 musical, ‘West Side Story’ – about forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks – aims to garner an entirely new fan base, or re-kindle the love of the film with it’s already millions of fans around the world. The film stars Ansel Elgort as Tony and Rachel Zegler as Maria and Rita Moreno, who played Anita in the 1961 film, is back in this film as Valentina.

Tony award-winner Canadian actor David Alvarez talks to Damnit Maurie about living up to the legacy of ‘West Side Story’ and working with the legendary Rita Moreno.

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