‘West Side Story’s Ansel Elgort and Mike Faist on Steven Spielberg’s Genius

With director Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story now playing in theaters, I recently got to speak with Ansel Elgort (Tony) and Mike Faist (Riff) about making the fantastic remake. During the interview, they talked about what it was like working with Spielberg and Janusz Kaminski on the cinematography, what it really takes to make a movie on this scale, what surprised them about working with Spielberg, what they wish more people knew about making a musical on this scale, which of their friends and family were the most excited hearing they’d been cast in a Spielberg movie, and more. In addition, Elgort shares a great story about what Daniel Day-Lewis did for Spielberg on the set of Lincoln. Continue reading

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