Rachel Zegler says the 'Snow White' remake she stars in gives the Disney princess' name a new origin story — in the wake of backlash to its 'woke' casting.
When Disney in 2021 announced Rachel Zegler as the lead in its “Snow White” revival, some consumers pledged to boycott the film for its “woke” casting. To them, a Colombian actor wasn’t qualified to play a princess with a canonical history of having “skin as white as snow.” So the production turned to some other history. “It fell back to another version of ‘Snow White,’” Zegler told Variety in an interview published Wednesday, “where she survived a snowstorm that occurred when she was a baby.
' The idea of casting little people had previously proven controversial after Emmy winner Peter Dinklage called out the 'hypocrisy' of Disney being 'very proud to cast a Latino actress as Snow White' while telling a 'backward' story that makes caricatures of dwarf people. The photos sparked more criticism on social media from people upset about the diverse casting, including Zegler’s, and the departure from the story’s classic canon.
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