‘West Side Story’ stars finally discuss sexual assault allegations against Ansel Elgort

Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” adaptation may have lit up the big screen last month, but the sexual assault allegations against star Ansel Elgort continue to dim some of that spark.

Rachel Zegler, who starred opposite Elgort’s Tony as Maria, as well as Ariana DeBose, who played Anita, and Rita Moreno, who originally played Anita and this go-round played Valentina, finally addressed the controversy in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, out Thursday.

“Nobody really knows what’s going on in anyone’s head. Only the people who were involved in that situation know what actually went down,” Ariana DeBose told the magazine.

“I think it would have been absolutely horrendous and wrong for anyone to take sides in that matter,” said Moreno. “It’s not for me to make those judgements.”

“We made a movie two and a half years ago, and a lot has gone on in the world since then,” said Zegler.

As “a lot has changed very publicly, and privately,” the 20-year-old pointed to “a lot of awakening.

“You just hope that the people involved are OK,” she continued. “That they are asked in a respectful manner and that they are given the opportunity to answer for themselves.”

The “Fault in Our Stars” actor, 27, previously denied the June 2020 allegations that in 2014, he assaulted a then-17-year-old girl, when he was 20.

The native New Yorker has maintained that the relationship was “brief, legal and entirely consensual.”

The accusations surfaced on social media nearly a year after shooting wrapped on “West Side Story.” He did no individual press to promote the long-awaited musical, which hit theaters in December.