Rachel Zegler revealed that Snow White's name has a new origin story in the upcoming live-action movie.
and Erin Cressida Wilson, the movie draws inspiration from the 1937 animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The latter was an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm’s 1812 fairy tale Snow White.Both the Brothers Grimm’s fairytale and the 1937 animated film describe Snow White as having “skin white as snow” and “hair black as ebony.”
Reflecting on the first trait, Zegler, who is of Colombian and Polish descent, explained that the name of her character has a new origin story in the live-action adaptation. “It fell back to another version of Snow White that was told in history, where she survived a snowstorm that occurred when she was a baby,” the West Side Story actress told
“And so the king and queen decided to name her Snow White to remind her of her resilience. One of the core points in our film for any young woman or young person is remembering how strong you actually are,” Zegler continued. After the announcement of her casting, there was considerable outrage on social media. This partly stemmed from how the character is described in the fairytale and Disney’s animated feature..
Zegler also revealed to Variety that Snow White is her mother’s favorite princess. She added, “When she was growing up, there weren’t a lot of dark-haired princesses, and that was the one she could relate to.”Magazine Dreams, the Jonathan Majors-starring bodybuilder drama movie, has found a new distributor. Magazine Dreams premiered at the Sundance Film…Progress is being made on Amazon MGM Studios’ live-action Voltron movie.
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