When “West Side Story” star Ansel Elgort appeared on “The Late Late Show with James Corden” on Dec. 8, he gushed about attending the lavish New York City premiere for the St…
He has not, however, sat for the kind of in-depth, one-on-one interviews one would expect of the star of a movie of this stature: no feature profiles or cover stories, no lengthy podcast interviews, nothing in which he would almost certainly have been asked about the assault allegation. His junket interviews were also grouped with other actors, further protecting Elgort from the potential of uncomfortable questions.
Still, Elgort has been talking, and, to date, no one has asked him about the allegation, including in a brief interview with Another complicating factor is that the entire episode unfolded exclusively over social media. Within days of her original post to Twitter, the woman deleted the tweet, shut down her account and has not posted about it since. Elgort also deleted the Instagram post with his response.
In that atmosphere, and with a press corps unwilling to broach a contentious subject in an inconvenient forum, Elgort has navigated the “West Side Story” release without ever having to address what could have been a career-killing allegation. It’s impossible to know what impact these efforts have ultimately had on the movie, which debuted this weekend withdomestically — a striking disappointment that likely has as much to do with consumer reticence to return to movie theaters amid the Omicron COVID-19 variant as any other reason. But it is at least clear that Elgort’s professional life does not appear to have been harmed.
Elgort better hope, however, that no one posts the moment to the internet. There’s not nearly as much applause there.
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