A live action remake of Snow White has, as you can imagine in these times, caused a major row. We take a look at the live-Action Snow White controversy.
Snow White is scheduled for 2024 and is being directed by Marc Webb (who directed the Amazing Spider-Man films starring Andrew Garfield).
The screenplay is by Greta Gerwig, the genius behind Barbie (2023) and Little Women (2019).
The new Snow White movie casted of Rachel Zegler—who is half Colombian and half Polish—as the famously “fairest” Disney princess.
So already you can see where this is going.
Remember the hate that rolled in when the little Mermaid wasn’t a white mermaid?
Live-Action Snow White controversy
Zegler has called-out the original cartoon for “very evidently” being a product of the 1930s.
“There’s a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her,” she says, calling that dynamic “weird”
Her version, Zegler says, is “really not about the love story at all,”
Instead, it’s about Snow White’s “inner journey” to “find her true self.”
Dwarfs?
Peter Dinklage said on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast that he was feeling “a little taken aback when [the Walt Disney Company] were very proud to cast a Latina actress as Snow White, but you are still telling the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”
In response, the Walt Disney Company said…to avoid reinforcing stereotypes from the original animated film, we are taking a different approach with these seven characters and have been consulting with members of the dwarfism community.
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Here are some of her comments addressing the themes of the cartoon from 1937.
The actor also said: ‘She’s not going to be saved by the prince and she’s not going to be dreaming about true love.’
Shazam
While talking to The Hollywood Reporter at the premiere of Shazam!, the star explained how she ended up joining the DC universe.
Zegler said she ‘needed a job’ before adding: ‘I’m being so serious.’
‘The reality is we’re in the middle of a pandemic and I was not working and I couldn’t get a job for the life of me, because West Side Story hadn’t come out yet,’ she confessed. ‘It was really hard to book work for me.’
Attacks
Sadly as you would expect Zegler’s outspokenness on social media has also drawn all the usual right-wing attacks.
She has faced these types of attacks before when she condemned the racist backlash against Halle Bailey’s casting in The Little Mermaid.
Zegler also called the gunman (and now alt-right hero) Kyle Rittenhouse a “racist” and “white supremacist.”
Here are someone people angry about Zegler on TalkTV…
Zegler revealed that as a child she was so scared of the animated movie.
She only watched it again while prepping for her role.
Here is an ‘right-wing’ ‘comedy’ sketch slamming her.
Here is some of her great move work so far!
Related: Hate pours in as new ‘The Little Mermaid’ trailer lands
