“I just mean it’s not 1937 anymore. She will not be saved by the prince and she will not dream about true love,” Zegler told Variety a year ago.
“She dreams of becoming the leader she knows she can be and the leader her late father told her she could be if she were fearless, honest, courageous and faithful.”
Zegler was roundly criticized for her vague feminist views and overly negative opinions of the original Snow White film
Last summer, the seven ‘magical creatures’ were depicted, which would be the more politically correct replacement for the dwarves
Zegler – best known for her breakthrough role in “West Side Story” – said again at the Disney D23 Expo in California in September 2022: “The original cartoon came out in 1937, and that was very clear. A lot of attention is paid to her love story with a man who literally stalks her. Foreign! Foreign! So we didn’t do that this time.
“We take a different approach to what many people will undoubtedly assume is a love story just because we cast a man in the film,” Rachel continued, referring to Andrew Burnap.
“All of Andrew’s scenes could be deleted, who knows? It’s Hollywood, baby!’ she joked, before admitting in a separate interview that she was “scared” of the original 1937 film.
‘I was afraid of the original version. I think I saw him once and never picked him up again. “I’m so serious,” she said.