Rachel Zegler revealed the backlash to her 2021 casting when Snow White got so bad people showed up at her house to curse her.
‘For being dark. For having brown skin. For playing Snow White. There was a lot of harassment by a certain group of people,’ the 23-year-old Colombian mestiza girl vented. Cosmopolitan cover story on Tuesday.
“They were showing up at my apartment and yelling bad words.”
Rachel takes on the titular Disney Princess in Marc Webb’s $209 million live-action PC remake of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, coming to US theaters and the UK on March 21, alongside Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen and a bunch of CGI midgets.
Rather than being a reference to her alabaster complexion, the king and queen call her Snow White in the reboot to “remind her of her resilience” after “surviving a blizzard as a baby.”
Rachel Zegler revealed the backlash to her 2021 casting when Snow White got so bad people showed up at her house to curse her.
The 23-year-old mixed-race Colombian woman vented in her Cosmopolitan cover story on Tuesday: ‘For being morena. For having brown skin. For playing Snow White. There was a lot of harassment from a certain group of people.
Zegler attempted a tongue-in-cheek response to the casting controversy, but “it got to a point where it wasn’t funny anymore and I really hated myself for something other people were telling me about myself.”
“But my ability to bounce back from that and remain passionate about the work I did for that project is something I admire about myself.”
The Hunger Games actress previously criticized David Hand’s original 1937 animated film as “extremely dated when it comes to ideas of women in roles of power and what a woman is fit for in the world.”
“The original cartoon came out in 1937, and it’s very obvious,” Rachel scoffed. Additional television in 2022.
“There’s a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her. Strange. So we didn’t do that this time.”
That same year, Zegler said Variety that her version of Snow White would dream of becoming a “fearless leader” instead of “dreaming of true love.”
‘For Snow White, there is a famous scene where she falls into a lake, through a kind of trapdoor in a forest. And we did, and I received diving training so I could spend a lot of time underwater,” the Golden Globe winner explained to Cosmo.
‘You learn to use a breathing tube. I had this guy named Pete, who is ex-Navy, attached to me at all times, tied to me. And I basically spent… I want to say a total of 48 hours training. And then he shot for two whole days. We were underwater for seven hours.
She claimed: “They were showing up at my flat and shouting bad words.”
Rachel takes on the titular Disney princess in the $209 million live-action PC remake of Marc Webb’s Grimm’s fairy tale, hitting US theaters and the United Kingdom on March 21.
Rather than being a reference to her alabaster complexion, the king and queen call her Snow White in the reboot to “remind her of her resilience” after “surviving a blizzard as a baby.”
Zegler attempted a tongue-in-cheek response, but “it got to a point where it wasn’t funny anymore and I really hated myself for something other people said to me.”
The Hunger Games actress previously criticized David Hand’s original 1937 animated film as “extremely dated when it comes to ideas of women playing roles of power.”
And while Rachel is grateful for her career, launched in 2021 by Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, she doesn’t “have to keep up appearances of being an ingenue when I’m out on the street every day.”
‘I don’t know what people think when they point at me on the subway. If I walk past a pizza place on a certain street, I don’t want to be gawked at, because that’s not really the job. Do you know what I mean? Zegler lamented.
‘Safely. People say, “Well, that’s what you signed up for!” It’s like, no, I signed up to make movies. I signed up to be in a Broadway show. I signed up to make music. I didn’t sign up to be a plastic doll for a bunch of people to take apart and play with.
“The first comment everyone makes to you is like, ‘Twitter isn’t the world, honey. Keep going.’ And it’s like, well, my dog is afraid of cameras because of how many people were outside my building.
The New Jersey native just made her Broadway debut as Juliet in Sam Gold’s musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (with music by Jack Antonoff), running through February 16 at the Circle in the Square Manhattan Theater.
Rachel just made her Broadway debut as Juliet in Sam Gold’s musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet running through February 16 at the Circle in the Square Theatre.
Zegler said, “I’m really afraid that people will think I’m a pirate.” They’re going to say, “Let’s see what this girl who makes movies knows about doing eight shows a week” (pictured last Thursday).
“Theatre holds actors in high esteem, Shakespeare in particular,” Rachel noted.
“When I took the job, it had an asterisk next to it that said, ‘By the way, I’m really afraid that people will think I’m a pirate.’ They’re going to say, ‘Let’s see what this movie girl knows about making eight shows.’ a week.”
Zegler voices Princess Ellian of the Kingdom of Lumbria in director Vicky Jenson’s animated musical Spellbound, premiering November 22 on Netflix.
The 109-minute Skydance film also features Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, John Lithgow, Jenifer Lewis, Nathan Lane and Tituss Burgess.
The Dior Beauty brand ambassador will also play Laura in Kyle Mooney’s 1999-set disaster comedy Y2K, which hits US theaters on December 6, alongside Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison, Fred Durst and Alicia Silverstone.