West Side Story: Mike Faist Reintroduces the Tragic Riff to a Modern Audience

“It was awful,” Mike Faist, who is earning raves for his reinvention of Riff in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, says of watching the film for the first time. As he tells Vanity Fair’s Katey Rich, Faist saw the movie this fall with a select crowd, having been brought in by Spielberg, producer Kristie Macosko Krieger, and Disney reps for a screening alongside costars Rachel Zegler, Ansel Elgort, Ariana DeBose, and David Alvarez. Suffice it to say, he was feeling the pressure. “It was an awful feeling because this is what happened: We’re on the Fox lot, we’re in the… Read Full Article