`You know Gen Z star Rachel Zegler from her turn as Maria in West Side Story, but the megawatt talent has some highly anticipated projects on the horizon (Shazam! Fury of The Gods, Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbird and Snake, and Snow White). On the set of Who What Wear, we talked to the actress about everything from her photo shoot playlist to the beauty trends she's loving right now.
Director: Stephanie Romero
Director of Photography: Emma Penrose
Camera Operator: Zack Shorrosh
Video Editor: Collin Hughart
Sound Mixer: Ethan Gustavson
VP, Creative: Alexa Wiley
VP, Social: MacKenzie Green
Executive Director, Entertainment: Jessica Baker
Director: Stephanie Romero
Director of Photography: Emma Penrose
Camera Operator: Zack Shorrosh
Video Editor: Collin Hughart
Sound Mixer: Ethan Gustavson
VP, Creative: Alexa Wiley
VP, Social: MacKenzie Green
Executive Director, Entertainment: Jessica Baker
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00:00 No, I cannot tell you anything about the new Snow White movie.
00:04 I've been sworn to secrecy.
00:06 Hi, Who Won't Wear, this is Rachel Segler.
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00:17 I think my perfect photoshoot pump-up jam
00:21 would be "Manicure" by Lady Gaga.
00:24 I think "Artpop" is such a beautiful album
00:28 and doesn't get enough love, doesn't get enough attention,
00:30 and I think "Manicure" is my favorite song off of it.
00:34 I love to drink as much water as I possibly can on a photoshoot
00:37 because you're standing in the same position
00:39 sometimes for way too long.
00:40 You start to go a little bit crazy,
00:42 water will wake you right back up.
00:44 I'm not a huge coffee drinker.
00:45 If I was, I'd probably drink coffee too, but I don't.
00:48 I don't have a lot of snacks on photoshoots.
00:50 I'm really scared. Look at me, I'm wearing a white suit.
00:52 Like, I'm just too messy to possibly eat snacks
00:55 while in very fancy clothing that I do not own.
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01:00 For pre-shoot ritual, I don't have many,
01:02 but I feel like the low hum of conversation
01:05 is very important to me to just keep my brain awake
01:09 and to wake everybody up in the morning.
01:11 Just bring some good conversation,
01:13 catch up with my team, my glam team, my styling team.
01:16 It's very nice.
01:17 Post-shoot ritual would probably be
01:20 taking a nap in the car ride home
01:22 and then going home and falling asleep on the couch.
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01:28 My signature scent nowadays is probably Miss Dior.
01:32 I love the way Miss Dior smells.
01:35 It's very floral and beautiful and very light.
01:38 It's not too overwhelming, and it's not an old lady scent,
01:41 which I'm always really cognizant of
01:43 when picking fragrances out.
01:47 I'm most looking forward to being back with my glam team.
01:49 It's been like a year since we all were together,
01:53 and everything's kind of amping back up
01:56 with Shazam 2 coming out,
01:57 so we're kind of just easing back in
01:59 to spending every waking moment with each other,
02:02 and I'm glad that we get to start doing that here.
02:06 I'm probably most excited to wear this Meow number
02:09 that I've never worn them before,
02:12 so I'm really excited to wear them in today's shoot.
02:17 I feel like I really vibe with the --
02:19 I feel like I'm ancient
02:22 when it comes to keeping up with trends.
02:24 I have no idea what is trendy ever.
02:27 I'm so bad at it.
02:29 But I feel like the clean girl aesthetic,
02:31 whatever that means, is a thing.
02:34 And then there was also, like, this lip trend
02:37 that I think Hailey Bieber was talking about
02:39 that, like, Latinas have been doing for so long
02:42 with the liner and gloss.
02:44 I'm always in with that trend,
02:46 and anything that allows me to wear, like, a gloss
02:49 and just some mascara
02:50 makes me feel confident to leave the house.
02:54 I don't know if I've been influenced by a lot of trends,
02:58 but I'm a big fan of everybody
03:02 who likes to express themselves in any art form,
03:05 and I feel like makeup is such an incredible art form
03:08 where people get to express themselves.
03:09 I've been doing my makeup since I was way too young
03:12 to be doing my makeup, and my mom let me,
03:15 you know, rifle through her makeup bag and play.
03:17 So I'm always just supportive
03:20 rather than influenced by makeup artists
03:23 and kids who are out there just expressing themselves
03:27 via their makeup or their hair or their fashion.
03:32 I feel like my most memorable day
03:34 on "Shazam 2, Fury of the Gods"
03:36 was probably my last day of shooting,
03:40 which I can't necessarily spoil for you now
03:44 because it was a very pivotal day of shooting,
03:46 but we all got to be together in the same frame
03:49 where, you know, on a superhero shoot.
03:52 It's not always common for you to actually be able
03:54 to look your fellow scene partners in the eye.
03:56 Sometimes they're just tennis balls
03:58 or pink Xs of tape on a blue screen.
04:00 So it was really nice for all of us to be together,
04:03 and it was very emotional
04:05 because it was the day a lot of us wrapped.
04:09 No, I cannot tell you anything
04:11 about the new "Snow White" movie,
04:14 but if I could, I would tell you everything
04:16 about the new "Snow White" movie
04:17 because I'm very excited about it.
04:19 But I did get a text message yesterday
04:22 that the first rough cut is finished,
04:25 which is so exciting,
04:26 which means we're just in the process of,
04:28 you know, test screening
04:29 and seeing what needs to be re-shot
04:31 or ADRed and redone.
04:32 And that was such a wild experience
04:36 from start to finish.
04:37 I can't wait to share it with people,
04:38 and it's gonna be in theaters in March of 2024.
04:42 I think of all the characters I've played,
04:47 Lucy Gray Baird in "The Hunger Games"
04:50 "Ballad of Songbirds and Stakes"
04:52 has, let me say that three times fast, right?
04:54 She has the most incredible beauty journey
04:57 because she's got the looks in "The Hobb."
05:01 Fans of the book will understand what I'm talking about,
05:02 but, you know, she's got looks when she's performing.
05:04 She's got looks, you know,
05:06 and then in the games, she's very, you know,
05:08 dirty and sweaty and all of these things.
05:10 And then there's a scene in a lake
05:12 where I get to be completely natural.
05:14 So I think that was probably my favorite beauty journey
05:18 'cause I got to do so many different looks on that set.
05:21 And her beauty and her vanity is very important to her.
05:26 And the makeup artist and the makeup designer,
05:29 Sherri Lawrence, and I really came up with a story
05:31 for each thing that she would put on her face.
05:34 So like, you know, her lipstick was made out of Beagle Juice
05:37 and all of these different things
05:39 'cause you have to justify all of these makeup trends
05:41 that she's doing in the confines of a kind of,
05:44 you know, post-apocalyptic setting,
05:47 a very dystopian setting.
05:49 Bye, "Who Won't Wear."
05:50 Thank you for hanging out with me on set.
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