‘Snow White’ reboot star Rachel Zegler responds to backlash over her feedback criticizing unique 1937 movie: ‘Made me unhappy’

The star of Disney’s live-action “Snow White” reboot, Rachel Zegler, is defending herself from backlash she obtained after calling out the “bizarre” love story within the unique animated movie years in the past.

In a new interview with Variety, Zegler accused her critics of taking her feedback “out of context” after interview footage from 2022 featured her chiding the unique film as old school in its depiction of romance between Snow White and the prince that saved her.

“In all honesty, it made me unhappy that it was taken in such a manner, as a result of I imagine that ladies can do something. However I additionally imagine that they’ll do all the things,” she advised the Hollywood outlet.

Within the 2022 clip from the Disney D23 Expo that 12 months, Zegler commented on her movie adaptation of the basic fairy story being extra trendy. 

“I simply imply that it’s now not 1937,” she mentioned on the time, including, “She’s not going to be saved by the prince and she or he’s not going to be dreaming about real love. She’s dreaming about turning into the chief she is aware of she will be and the chief that her late father advised her that she may very well be if she was fearless, honest, courageous and true.”

Elsewhere, she commented that some components of the unique movie had been “bizarre” and that mentioned the prince “actually stalks” Snow White.

Followers of the unique Disney “Snow White” and different cultural commentators slammed Zegler’s need for a model of the basic story with trendy gender norms shoehorned into it. The actress has since turn into the topic of mockery and Disney’s upcoming movie – out in 2025 – has been written off by many film followers on-line.

In her current interview, Zegler defined that she by no means supposed her feedback to be offensive, stating that she simply meant the basic Disney character has targets along with falling in love with the prince.

She mentioned, “I’d by no means wish to field somebody in and say, ‘In order for you love, then you may’t work.’ Or ‘If you wish to work, then you may’t have a household.’ It’s not true. It’s by no means been true. It may be very upsetting when issues get taken out of context or jokes don’t land.”

The actress additionally denied allegations that Disney was going to replace the love story for the trendy period. “The love story may be very integral. Lots of people wrote that we weren’t doing [that storyline] anymore — we had been at all times doing that; it simply wasn’t what we had been speaking about on that day.”

As she continued, Zegler urged that her feedback had been taken out of context by individuals who wish to tear down well-known girls. Selection acknowledged, “Zegler’s not stunned by what she sees as folks’s willful misunderstanding of her feedback. It’s par for the course for an outspoken younger girl within the public eye.”

The actress added “I’ve watched girls get torn down my entire life, my entire profession. We’ll watch it within the election that’s upcoming. We’re gonna witness that for a very long time, I worry. 

Generally it might really feel like we’re going again; it definitely felt that manner when that was taking place.”

Along with the “Snow White” controversy, Zegler additionally sparked outrage for an anti-Israel assertion she shared to X in August.

After thanking her followers for tuning into the primary trailer of the “Snow White” movie on-line, she added, “and at all times keep in mind, free palestine.”