Zegler has big shoes to fill in portraying the political leader Eva Perón, the second wife of Argentine president Juan Perón. Theater legends Elaine Paige and Patti LuPone originated the role on the West End and Broadway, respectively, while Madonna starred in the 1996 film adaptation.

Zegler recalled the unsettling experience of being forced to prove your heritage to a room full of white executives.

Rachel Zegler has said she faced a grilling over the legitimacy of her ethnicity by “white executives” when initially in the running play Maria in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story.