The star of Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Snow White, Rachel Zegler, has come under fire for bashing the original animated film in another resurfaced video.
In the video that resurfaced on X over the weekend, the 22-year-old actress said “I mean, you know, the original cartoon came out in 1937 and very evidently so. There’s a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her. Weird! Weird. So we didn’t do that this time.”
“We have a different approach to, what I’m sure a lot of people will assume is a love story, just because we cast a guy in the movie, Andrew Burnap, great dude,” she added. “It’s one of those things that I think everyone’s going to have their assumptions about what it’s going to be, but it’s really not about the love story at all, which is really, really wonderful.”
Daily Wire host Matt Walsh posted a message on X to his 2.4 million followers in response, “Disney is trying a really interesting marketing strategy where the star of the new ‘Snow White’ spends a year before the movie’s release publicly talking about how much she despises Snow White.”
Conservative radio host Dana Loesch joked, “[T]hey probably couldn’t have a Prince Charming in this one because Snow White is so annoying that he’d just let her continue napping.”
Red State editor Brandon Morse wrote simply, “Disney’s own actors are tearing down Disney’s legacy.”
Another person wrote that it wasn’t just conservatives that were done with this idea of the “strong female lead trope,” but everyone.
“The fact that everyone is so unhappy with Rachel Zegler and Snow White shows how *EVERYONE* — not just conservatives — is done with the strong female lead trope,” the person wrote. “It’s overdone and the girls are tired of it.”
In another video that resurfaced recently, the actress faced a backlash after she said that the remake wasn’t going to have any of those things like Snow White “being saved by the prince” or the princess “dreaming about true love.”
“She’s not going to be saved by the prince and she’s not going to be dreaming about true love,” Zegler said in the clip. “She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be and the leader that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave and true.”
Disney is trying a really interesting marketing strategy where the star of the new Snow White spends a year before the movie’s release publicly talking about how much she despises Snow White
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 13, 2023
