Snow White, Disney, Rachel Zagger and a toxic debate that does not disappear

Whether you like the new movie about Snow White or hate it, it’s hard to escape from the debate around your lead actress Rachel Zgler.

The 23-year-old star dominates the movie, as people either blame her for their bad reviews or jump in defense, saying she is unfairly malicious.

And this debate is not new to Zgler.

The road before Snow White came out, She was in the center of the stormWith many who criticizes her to take over the original film and her political views, including those of US President Donald Trump and his constituents.

Others defended her and expressed discomfort when they saw such a young actress suffering a pile.

Film critic Kelechi Eenulo calls Zegler the victim of “cultural wars” and warns actors of insufficiently represented backgrounds (Zegler Is Latina) often prove to be “goal for reaction”.

So, how did we get to this point – and where does Zgler go from here?

Let’s start with the movie itself.

The Disney Live version of the classic Snow White tale was released earlier this month and encountered a number as “Toe-Curlingly Terrible”.) The US reviewers were a little more positive – but even though she exceeded the graph of the cashier in North America, she did not earn as much money as expected.

In social media, some people were in a hurry to finger to Zgler, arguing that it was preventing release.

These include Jona Platt, the son of Snezhanka Mark Platt. Earlier this week, he strives for Zgler in a fiery publication on social media. It has been deleted since then, but has been screenshoted by multiple retail outlets including The New York PostS

He said Zagger “dragged) his personal policy” in the promotional campaign of the film, adding: “Her actions obviously hurt the movie’s box office.”

Fabric did not respond to a request for a comment from BBC News.

The contradictions started much earlier.

Before the movie was released, Zgleire was confronted with abuse online by people who disagree with his casting in the role of a hero that is considered to have a “white as snow” skin.

Zgler made the titles after his comments in 2022 about the original movie. “She has a great focus (in the original) on her love story with a person who literally lurks her. Strange! So this time we didn’t.”

Zagger said and The original movie was “Extremely dated when it comes to ideas for women to be in the role of power,” adding, “People make these jokes that ours are PC Snow White, where it is like, yes, that is – because it needed it.”

Many saw these words as a rebuke against Disney’s tradition.

Daily Mail marked him “woke up tirade” and article This week at Variety He said he “ruined the beloved original Snow White.”

City AM film editor Victoria Luxford says criticism of the original movie “It will never work out well. These movies are available on the nostalgia market after making you feel the way you did when you saw the original, so it seems to be puzzling about it.”

Zgler declined to comment on this piece.

But Anna Smith, a movie critic and host the podcast “Girls in the movie,” told BBC News that some of the titles may be misleading.

“Zgleire pointed out that times and attitudes have changed and that the new Snow White is adapted for the current era. This is the case with many remakes and restarts, many of which do not make titles with comments on” awakened “culture.”

Zagger’s political views also caused a reaction.

Last summer she thanked the fans for their reply to the movie trailer In the post of xAdding, “And always remember, free Palestine.”

According to Variety’s article, Mark Platt – mentioned above – flew to New York to talk directly to Zegler after the publication.

Neither Zgler nor fabric responded to a request for a comment.

Zgler also faced disputes with his views after the 2024 presidential election in the United States. Writing on Instagram, she said she hoped, “Trump’s voters and Trump himself will never know peace.”

Later she apologized about what she had said.

Some praised her for saying her opinion. Ahenulo says she “is not the first and is certainly not the last actor to talk about politics.”

And Luxford told me that she had “hardly pressed” to imagine the main audience of the film, children under 10 years of age, swinging from her policy.

But film critic Konor Riley said her comments on Trump did not “help the stability of the movie.”

He notes that Gal Gadot, who plays Snezhanka’s stepmother, the evil queen, also encountered a reaction from some people. Gadot, who is Israeli, is vowel in his support for the country.

The time of the movie did not help either, he added.

“In the end, (Zgleire) has become a lightning lightning, not only because of its own actions, but because Snow White landed at the intersection of Hollywood’s creative stagnation, racial policy, international conflict and the deep ideological division of America,” he said.

Some, like Luxford, claim that part of the pile comes from a “place of prejudice.”

“She is a young Latin American woman with political opinions who do not come to line with certain groups that are in a hurry to express their anger,” she said.

Zgler is far from the first young female actress who has been facing a toxic reaction. Recently, an actor on Stranger Things Mili Bobby Brown criticizes the press articles Regarding her appearance, saying “This is not journalism, it’s harassment.”

Smith notes that women in fame are more likely to be directed in this way.

“When women in the eyes of the public are criticized, there is often bias at work. Despite the topic, the way they are engaged, talks and is reported, it will often differ from the way men are treated,” she said.

Ahenulo, for his part, urges the industry to do more to protect its stars.

“What annoys me is how easy (people with color), the actors become a blink of back response in social media, and yet the culture of silence from studios, news editions and social media platforms says all this,” she said.

“This lack of public protection … means that toxicity continues to increase and rise. This is the wild west out and I cannot see that it becomes better when it is normalized to such an extent.”

We put these claims to Disney, but they refused to comment.

The big roles continue to come to Zgler. She is now registered to participate in Evita in West End this summer, and on Friday she sprayed differently – reading a bedtime story at CBEebies.

At the end of the storyZgler tells the young viewers: “To be a powerful princess, you just have to be wonderful, brilliant!” For some, this is a message that encapsulates Zegler herself.

“I don’t know if she’ll make another Disney movie soon,” Luxford says, “But she’s 23, she’s a Golden Globe winner and she’s a very talented actor.”