West Side Story breakout Rachel Zegler will debut as the villainous(?) Daughter of Atlas, Anthea, in Shazam! Fury of the Gods, but the actress has now revealed that she almost landed a very different DCU role.
While speaking to /Film, Zegler mentioned that her casting director originally approached her to read for Supergirl in The Flash.
"I read for Rich [Delia], who was our casting director, and he originally had come to me with Supergirl for [The] Flash, and I was not right for it. He was like, 'You know what, I've got a character in mind for you for Shazam. They're looking at X, Y, Z. We would love it if you came in and read.'"
Zegler went on to speak about her audition process, and it seems Freddy Freeman actor Jack Dylan Grazer may have been instrumental in landing her the part.
"So I read on Zoom. Obviously, the era of Zoom is isolation, pandemic era. Then I went back in, and I read for David Sandberg, and then for the last time, I had a chemistry read with Jack Dylan Grazer. The story goes that Jack picked me. That Peter Safran, our producer, turned to him and was like, 'Which one did you like the best, Jack?' and he said, 'Well, she's Maria in West Side Story, so we got to have her.' Because Jack is a very big West Side Story fan. Jack loves West Side Story. So I have him to thank, really."
Sasha Calle will suit-up as Supergirl in The Flash (see her in action in a recently released TV spot), but if things had worked out differently, we could have seen Zegler take to the skies as the Girl of Steel in the Scarlet Speedster's first solo outing.
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