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Rachel Zegler claims people screamed profanities at her over Snow White casting Have YOU got a story? Email [email protected] By Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.Com Published: 00:23, 31 October 2024 | Updated: 00:30, 31 October 2024 e-mail 6 shares 1 View comments Rachel Zegler revealed the backlash to her 2021 casting as Snow White got so bad that people actually showed up to her home to curse at her.
'For being brown. For having brown skin. For playing Snow White.
There was a lot of harassment from a certain group of people,' the half-Colombian 23-year-old vented in her Cosmopolitan cover story on Tuesday. 'They were showing up at my apartment and screaming profanities.' Rachel takes on the titular Disney Princess in Marc Webb's $209M-budget 'PC' live-action remake of the Brothers Grimm fairytale - hitting US/UK theaters March 21 - opposite Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen and a slew of CGI dwarves.
Instead of being a reference to her alabaster complexion, the king and queen name her Snow White in the reboot in order 'to remind her of her resilience' after 'surviving a snowstorm as a baby.' Rachel Zegler revealed the backlash to her 2021 casting as Snow White got so bad that people actually showed up to her home to curse at her The half-Colombian 23-year-old vented in her Cosmopolitan cover story on Tuesday: 'For being brown. For having brown skin.
For playing Snow White. There was a lot of harassment from a certain group of people' Read More Rachel Zegler, 23, wears blood covered dress as she joins Heartstopper star Kit Connor, 20, to celebrate Romeo & Juliet opening night Zegler attempted a tongue-in-cheek response to the casting controversy, but 'it got to a point where it was not funny anymore and I really hated myself for something that other people were telling me about myself. 'But my ability to bounce back from that and still be passionate about the work I did for that project is something that I admire about myself.
' The Hunger Games actress previously criticized David Hand's 1937 original animated film as 'extremely dated when it comes to the ideas of women being in roles of power and what a woman is fit for in the world.' 'The original cartoon came out in 1937, and very evidently so,' Rachel scoffed to Extra TV in 2022. 'There's a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her.
Weird. So we didn't do that this time.' That same year, Zegler told Variety that her version of Snow White would be dreaming about becoming a 'fearless leader' rather than 'dreaming about true love.
' 'For Snow White, there's a famous scene where she falls into a lake, through a trapdoor-type thing in a forest. And we did it, and I got scuba diving training so that I could spend a long time underwater,' the Golden Globe winner explained to Cosmo. 'You learn how to use a breathing tube.
I had this guy named Pete, who is ex-Navy, attached to me at all times, tethered to me. And essentially I spent..
.I want to say a total of 48 hours training. And then shot for two whole days.
It was seven hours underwater.' She claimed: 'They were showing up at my apartment and screaming profanities' Rachel takes on the titular Disney Princess in Marc Webb's $209M-budget 'PC' live-action remake of the Brothers Grimm fairytale, which hits US/UK theaters March 21 Instead of being a reference to her alabaster complexion, the king and queen name her Snow White in the reboot in order 'to remind her of her resilience' after 'surviving a snowstorm as a baby' Zegler attempted a tongue-in-cheek response, but 'it got to a point where it was not funny anymore and I really hated myself for something that other people were telling me' And while Rachel is grateful for her career - launched in 2021 by Steven Spielberg's West Side Story - she doesn't 'have to maintain appearances of being an ingénue when I'm on the street every day.' 'I don't know what people are thinking when they point at me on the subway.
If I'm passing the pizza place on a certain street, I don't want to be gawked at, because that's actually not the job. Do you know what I mean?' Zegler lamented. 'For sure.
People say, "Well, that's what you signed up for!" It's like, no, I signed up to make movies. I signed up to be in a Broadway show. I signed up to make music.
I didn't sign up to be a plastic doll for a bunch of people to pull apart and play with. 'Everybody's first comment to you is like, "Twitter's not the world, babe. Just move on.
" And it's like, well, my dog is scared of cameras because of how many people used to be outside my building.' The New Jersey native just made her Broadway debut as Juliet in Sam Gold's musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (featuring music by Jack Antonoff), which runs through February 16 at Circle in the Square Theatre in Manhattan. The New Jersey native just made her Broadway debut as Juliet in Sam Gold's musical adaptation of Romeo & Juliet running through February 16 at Circle in the Square Theatre Rachel said: 'I'm scared s***less that people are going to think I'm a hack.
They're going to be like, "Let's see what this girl who does film knows about doing eight shows a week"' (pictured last Thursday) 'Theater is held in such a high regard for actors, Shakespeare in particular,' Rachel noted. 'When I accepted the job, it was with an asterisk next to it going, "By the way, I'm scared s***less that people are going to think I'm a hack." They're going to be like, "Let's see what this girl who does film knows about doing eight shows a week.
"' Zegler voices Lumbria Kingdom's Princess Ellian in director Vicky Jenson's animated musical Spellbound, which premieres November 22 on Netflix. The 109-minute Skydance flick also features Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, John Lithgow, Jenifer Lewis, Nathan Lane, and Tituss Burgess. The Dior Beauty brand ambassador will also portray Laura in Kyle Mooney's 1999-set disaster comedy Y2K - hitting US theaters December 6 - alongside Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison, Fred Durst, and Alicia Silverstone.
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