Snow White star all the controversy surrounding the Disney live-action remake.
For those unaware, Zegler became the unworthy to play the character, since Snow White is described as having “skin as white as Snow” in the original fairytale. While it was far from the only controversy to plague the Disney adaptation (more on that later), Zegler has since revealed that Ariana Grande was “so deeply kind” when reaching out to her ahead of the film’s release.
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“[She] was like, 'If you need anything, I’m here.' She’s so deeply kind. She’s gone through so much in the public eye and I’ve always ired her courage in the face of all of that.”
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“[Grande] reached out to me… and was like, ‘If you need anything, I am here,'” Zegler said in a recent interview with it’s Grande, but Zegler said she received from others in Hollywood, too.
For her part, it was The Good Place star Jameela Jamil (also her ability to have her own back, too. Amid the height of the racist public commentary around her casting, Zegler took to social media with a stern message to the haters in a since-deleted post.
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“Yes I am Snow White [and] no I am not bleaching my skin for the role,” she wrote at the time. Get ‘em, Rach! On top of the legions of trolls who were nitpicking about a fairytale that was quite literally written hundreds of years ago, Snow White has also endured controversy from other angles. For starters, there was the backlash against Gal Gadot, who stars as the Evil Queen, Disney had not cast little people in the roles of the seven dwarfs, and had instead opted for CGI versions of the characters.
All of that without even mentioning the Disney had scaled-down the film’s premiere to minimize any further negative press. It remains to be seen whether all the behind-the-scenes drama will completely engulf the film, with Snow White set to hit cinemas on March 21, 2025.
Published: Mar 18, 2025 11:47 pm