Disney Confirms Rachel Zegler's 'Snow White' Comments, Quietly Reveals Origin Story Footage

Comments for Disney Confirms Rachel Zegler’s ‘Snow White’ Comments, Quietly Reveals Origin Story Footage

Rachel Zegler as Snow White looking up and smirking

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92 Comments

  1. Truth Seeker

    I will not be watching or buying toys from it. This has completely changed the original story so they should have just created another movie and not Snow White. The story is too woke with Snow White going to the dwarves and bossing them around, calling the prince a stalker and saying she hated the original. This version should have never been made and should lose a lot of money for pushing this garbage to children and young adults.

    1. Spencer Riley

      You do realize that in the original film she threatens to not give them dinner unless they wash their hands?

      1. Ldelh

        unbelievable! and how come none of the gnomes committed suicide after such threats??

      2. Càlen

        You do realize her intentions for doing that is so they don’t get sick for shoving, sweat, dirt and coal dust down their throats, right?

        1. Danny

          Just like a responsible parent wanting their child to consume the nutrients required for being healthy. Same with exercise.

      3. Spanky

        Comments on a movie about a pretty princess and seven dwarves draws a bunch of trolls. Ya’ll need to take a step back and stop being so “infuriated” about a kids movie. It’s ridiculous how nasty these comments are. Ya’ll clearly need more happiness in Ya’ll lives.

        1. DragonStryk72

          Sure, when will the studio making it stop doing so? Cause that’s what keeps happening.

        2. Spank You Very Much

          Indeed. Trolls needs to be spanked. Nice name, btw.

        3. Olivia

          Be quiet

      4. Kevin

        And? What is your point? That kids shouldn’t have to wash their hands before dinner…..and it’s not the original….the 1937s version was an adaptation of the original. It’s so stupid to “reimagine” a fairy tale. Just tell it like it is… A crummy rewrite that kept 6 other “midgets” out of a job, because the woke-ites at Diddney decided to show how under represented they are, by not allowing them to be represented in the, arguably, most famous movie that a male person with drawfism is connected with….. It’s a different product wrapped up in Name Only. No substance.

      5. DragonStryk72

        You do realize asking them to wash their hands isn’t that bad, right? Especially after you did work to make food for them.

      6. Jim

        And that’s a problem for you? Get real.

      7. Hank

        Disney needs to include a clause in the contract with their actors that they are not allowed to make personal comments about a movie when they are being
        paid for their acting
        Services. When Disney drops its “agenda” and makes family friendly movies without pushing the agenda, I won’t be supporting its movies.

    2. Jeff

      100% agree. I have completely given up on disney. Have not watched anything they have screened in the last year and canceled my subscription to the screening service. Disney does not exist without the people it employs and I cannot support a company with the views that have been expressed by its employees.

    3. Joy

      Agree. Won’t see it due to the principle!

    4. Glenn

      I fully agree. Another reason to not renew our annual passes. History is history- leave it alone.

      1. Christina Reagh

        I do not support Disney the management of Disney keeps finding ways to dishonor Walt Disney. The even notion of CGI dwarves will scare children. The idea that the Prince is a stalker is not the image I grew up with. This movie should not have been made. Thumbs down to this film.

        1. Wendell

          If you have children, I suggest you refrain from showing them the Trolls movies if they’re so easily traumatized by CGI little people.

      2. B. Shadbolt

        Couldn’t agree more. If it’s not broken don’t fix it.

        Plain and simple.

        1. Spank You Very Much

          Um..what’s being fixed? Last I checked, this movie is not replacing the first one.

    5. Yes I agree. Why name it Snow White when the story is completely different. They should have used their imaginations for new theme. Have it’s own costumes, girl’s name not the original ones. Leave out the 7 dwarfs, use the magical creatures for her to boss around. Leave out the Prince let her be whatever she’s suppose to be in this horrible film. Disney stop remaking classic animation movies into live movies. Come up with new material, isn’t that why they are called imagineers??

    6. CJA

      In the original Grimm fairy tale, Snow White was as dumb as a box of rocks! Three times the Dwarves warned her of the Evil Queen and three times ignored their sage advice, almost dying each time.
      Also, the Prince carried the crystal coffin to his castle because he fell in love with a corpse, and wanted to look at her whenever he wished. At the end, the Evil Queen had red hot iron shoes strapped onto her
      feet and forced to dance until she fell down dead. And let’s not forget that the boar’s heart the huntsman brought back the Queen salted, cooked and ate!
      But woke is so much worse…

    7. Shirley Rill

      Totally agree with you and as long as she’s in the movie I’m not even watching it!

  2. Elizabeth

    Rachel Ziegler is unlikable untalented unbearable and unfit to play the demure princess Snow White. She doesn’t have the charm, the grace, the beauty. She definitely does not have the beauty and she’s just someone who’s so grotesquely unpleasant. I would not see that garbage film. If it were the only film anette, I would still not watch it. + I can hardly wait to see this untalented creature because she’s not even human. Just trash and crash her or what’s left of her career cuz she’s not going anywhere

    1. Grace

      She was outstanding in West Side Story, and is very pretty with a great voice. However, her obnoxious comments are inappropriate and a real turn off.

    2. Marcus

      Rachel Cringe Zigler is a joke. She is a shame to the hispanic community. She is repulsive, egotistical, and a complete narcissistic baboon.. She has the personality of old dish water and should have remained in Colombia on her pig farm.
      Disney and the rachel the pig 🐖 Zigler deserve each other.

      1. This is one movie I am not even going to waste my time with. I’ll play the original for my grandkids.

      2. Bre

        This saddens me. As in a child growing up with Walt Disney being a family activity I don’t feel as if I can watch these with my kids let alone my grandkids. They have come so far but not in a good way. I’m fine with changing characters looks to a certain degree but they must fulfill the original story. She is fair, white as The driven snow. Make the evil witch Hispanic, African-American, but then of course then you’ll get backlash because you’re making the evil a minority. But you can’t continue to change the fairy tale and not have people upset. And even if Walt changed the fairy tale to suit his liking you are making this in his name you must must stay to his namesake. Create new ones that can be yours but for you to change Walt Disney into something that is now yours is a travesty. And this woke culture is even more damaging and diminishing to what Walt was trying to create. There are no politics there are no religions there are no racial inequalities he wanted pure family entertainment. Pure. You should really listen to his comments before he started each movie for the wonderful world of Walt Disney movies each Sunday night, those were his words and you have strayed far far from them. You’re missing real opportunities to educate our children I would have loved to seen seven little people. There should be an uproar of why aren’t we using actors and actresses that can fulfill a job but is taken away and given to a computer a CGI likeness! Why? Because you thought it was more aesthetically pleasing? Then keep it in the animated field. Don’t make it live action, as you call it! If you can’t do it then don’t do it! It’s fine when you want to give an animal a voice but a person that really exists? That angers me! You need to start doing rough drafts and having them put forth to an audience, but not an audience for children even though that is your supposed audience. But you need to have a wide selection of a demographic of parents young and old to review your movies before all of the money is put into them to see if they would take their children to the movie. Maybe this would help you see what would bring in your money or not. Your audience might be for children but if the parents are unwilling to take them to the movie it does you no good! You need to have your thoughts and ideas challenged before you waste all of your money in production. That would be my great advice to you! Because if you haven’t figured it out now the generations that grew up with the great Walt Disney are running not walking but running from something that they held dear and we’re so excited to share that feeling with their children and grandchildren. We no longer believe in that portion of Disney. Your Parks may continue to flourish even though they’ve had a lot of backlash but your movies your precious movies that we all waited for are no longer looked forward to!

    3. Jane

      Leave it to disney to ruin a classic. No, I won’t watch this crap.

    4. Cheryl C

      Not a penny for this awful sounding movie. Between one rich little person basically screwing seven little people out of jobs and a big mouthed ‘starlet’ disparaging the original story, this movie isn’t worth a damn to me. Also, it’s a bit silly when the Evil Queen is actually the fairest of them all. They needed an uglier queen or a more beautiful Snow White! I see nothing but disaster surrounding this movie

      1. Exactly… Ziegler is so not the fairest just average at best.

  3. Elizabeth

    I was trying to say but I’m using text audio. You know when you speak it it writes it out. I was trying to say I would not watch this trash film. If it were the only film on Earth I still would not watch it. It is complete and utter garbage. They changed the entire storyline. They made it an entirely different story. It’s ridiculous they’re using someone who’s complexion is not white as snow when the title is called Snow White precisely because of her skin tone. This is just such garbage that I’m dying to see it. Flop

  4. Mateo

    I’m totally rooting for the apple! Zegler is as unlikeable as a foot fungus WEIRD!!!!! WEIRD!!!

  5. Richard

    This is very sad, I grew up with the Micky Mouse Club, Sunday nights with the Wonderful World of Disney. Listening to Walt tell us all about the magic of Disney Land. Some how I can’t imagine that he would condone such woke BS. I will not promote this movie to any of my family members, I will not be attending any showing of it.

  6. Kenr

    It’s mind boggling that Diseny, with all their rules and policies, did not train this bratty actress what she is allowed to say and not say when the company has close to 400 million is shareholder capital at stake. They should have replaced her 2 years ago. I won’t be seeing this because of her.

  7. Danny O.

    I can link all the things wrong with Zegler & Disney & Snow Woke — with just the comments from the various Inside the Magic articles on Snow Woke & Zegler since September. However, no one has ever said they will be seeing it in theaters. Only a couple Zegler fans are willing to watch it on Disney+.

    YouTube has quite a few videos making fun of this entire tragedy that Disney sunk Three-hundred-plus MILLION dollars into. And Disney will be raising their park & streaming prices even HIGHER, in order to stay afloat.

    Gotta’ hand it to Iger. When he destroys a company, he goes all out!

  8. mathewvroman

    Disney. The actress literally wished no piece for millions of people. She hates the original and you are doing through with this? Please Disney board member you need to stop this madness. It will be a huge flop. You are determined to destroy the product.

    1. Spank You Very Much

      Looks like Rachel’s wish is already coming true. LMAO

  9. NotThatHairPls

    They modernized everything but didn’t modernize that ugly bob??? It looks so cringe and weird. Not at all 😩😭

  10. Shanlung

    *Dylan Mulvaney more sexy with more tits than hideous Raquel Zegler with big ugly mole on her chin*

  11. Claudette

    No, I will not watch this.
    Actors and actresses are supposed to entertain not strike controversy as soon as their movie is brought up in conversation.

  12. Wendell

    Haters gonna hate, as usual, but I think this trailer looks terrific. The brand new song sounds good too.

    1. JT

      Enjoy it, Wendell. You should have your pick of seats in the theater!

      1. Wendell

        That’s the spirit! I’ll report my findings in due time. Thanks for the well-wishes.

    2. Ziegler is no sniw white should have been the wicked witch. The trailers look stupid. And there is nothing great about this movie except to a simpleton.

      1. Spank You Very Much

        There’s no “wicked witch” in any version of this story. LMAO

  13. Frank

    Amazing these people think their writing better than the Grimms and the guy they want eradicated, Walt.

  14. Anne

    I still refuse to watch Feminist Snow Brown.
    Disney has completely lost their magic just to support liberal politics. I might watch Mufasa if I find a cheap DVD somewhere but I loathe Disney. I’m sick of them supporting illegal immigrants, and wokies.

    1. Danny O.

      You “lothe” Disney; yet Inside the Magic focuses on WHICH franchise? Also, Mufasa is Disney (the company you lothe).

    2. Spank You Very Much

      For someone who claims to be over Disney and their politics, you spend a ton of time on a website devoted to Disney news. LMAO

    3. Spank You Very Much

      For someone who claims to be over Disney and its politics, you sure spend a ton of time on a site devoted to Disney news. LMAO

  15. JT

    I wouldn’t spend a nickel nor invest a second of my time to watch this trash. Disney dropped the ball big time with this one. Rachel Ziegler is perhaps the biggest mis-casted actor I’ve ever heard of. Walt has got to be spinning in his grave.

  16. I have no intention of watching this version in the theaters, buying it or down loading it. I liked most of the live action remakes as they stayed close to the animated films. This film is not worth my time or the spending money to see. Maybe when it doesn’t do as well as Disney is hoping, they will listen to people.

  17. Stephen

    People who defend the constant and pointless race-swapping in re-tellings these days point out that “oh, Disney has always changed things though”. Yes, it has, but it already DID change the original story to ‘the Disney version’. So then why change it again? Who does it fill with horror to watch a harmless, ageless story about Prince’s rescuing damsels and wanting to find true love? The utter tosh about “oh, it’s after she was caught in a snow storm, actually” is painfully contrived.

    1. Spank You Very Much

      Maybe the question shouldn’t be “Why change it again?” but rather “How does changing it again impact your life directly?” How difficult will it be for you to live in a world where this updated version exists? Will it be a struggle for you to coexist?

      1. Rick

        Because it’s insulting that Disney is going out of its way to replace white people.

        What do you think the reaction would be if the cast the new black panther with Tom Cruise?

        Bet ya wouldn’t ask such a dumb question then huh?

        1. Spank You Very Much

          As a white person myself, I’m not the least bit insulted, so this sounds like a YOU problem. What’s more, your grievance lacks merit. You act like you’re losing access to movies with white characters as if Disney is actively erasing them from existence, but I bet you can’t name a single movie full of white characters that has been removed from circulation and then permanently replaced with a multi-colored version. Go ahead. Try.

          There’s more of a spiteful “tit for tat” energy about you, as if a White Lives Matter movement would make you happy, just so you can say “There, how do YOU like it, non-whites? How does THAT feel?”.

          If you were more of a critical thinker, I bet you wouldn’t choose such a dumb hill to die on, but to each their own pointless battles, I guess.

  18. FreeThinker

    I’m so tired of Disney and Hollywood pushing this woke progressive crap on us. The CGI dwarfs are scary looking and the story line has been gutted so what’s the point of it. The only entertainment I’ll get from it is watching it bomb.

  19. Tom Mariner

    It is essential in our entertainment community, from films to TV to ads to purposely denigrate the European Americans who founded the place and made it into the best on the planet. Betting Broadway is no longer called “The Great White Way”.

    But worst is our dwarf community having to intervene to preserve their legacy in the film when the activists “came to the aid of” them. Just as 90% of our Native Americans got upset when the 90-year-old “Redskins” name of the Washington DC football team was banished to “protect” them.

    1. lmariel

      Even if I was given a free ticket to watch it, I wouldn’t waste my time. So disgusted with Disney. Wonder what has to happen to wake them up. Hope this hurts their pocketbook BIG time! Maybe that will wake them up.

      1. Danny O.

        There’s a YouTube video where they joked about being the only one in the theater for Snow Woke: youtu.be/cza7lI6FzI8

    2. Aunty Polly

      It was also essential in the entertainment community for many decades to mimic what school textbooks were doing and whitewash history – e.g., paint all European colonizers across the board as heroes worth celebrating – only to fix those mistakes later on. You probably still cling to the idea that Christopher Columbus discovered America and rail against Indigenous Peoples Day as woke blasphemy, don’t ya?

      1. Tom Mariner

        Nope — just wonder how many in our melting-pot country can believe that honoring the team spirit and athletic ability of our Native Americans by naming a billion-dollar sports franchise after that part of our country is somehow insulting them. They don’t believe it is an insult but parrot the talking points of a political party that thinks dividing our country rather than uniting it will get or keep them in power.

        1. Aunty Polly

          You’re basing that on a single Washington Post survey from 2016 that polled a fairly small sample of Native Americans, 90% of whom answered that they were “not bothered” by the name Redskins, even though it was later determined that the survey question was poorly worded and confusing. In 2020, there was an empirical study analyzing data from 1,021 Native Americans, twice the size of previous samples, and researchers found that 49% of self-identified Native Americans found the Washington Redskins name offensive or very offensive, 38% found it not offensive, and 13% were indifferent.

          You don’t have to wonder so much when you take the time to Google and do your own research.

        2. Aunt Polly

          You’re basing that 90% number on a single survey conducted in 2016, which has since been described as poorly worded and confusing. Other surveys were conducted since then, with double the sample size of respondents, in which researchers found that 49% of self-identified Native Americans found the Washington Redskins name offensive or very offensive, 38% found it not offensive, and 13% were indifferent.

          There’s no need to wonder so much when you Google and do your own research.

  20. Cheryl C

    Not a penny for this awful sounding movie. Between one rich little person basically screwing seven little people out of jobs and a big mouthed ‘starlet’ disparaging the original story, this movie isn’t worth a damn to me. Also, it’s a bit silly when the Evil Queen is actually the fairest of them all. They needed an uglier queen or a more beautiful Snow White! I see nothing but disaster surrounding this movie

  21. This travesty will blow chunks. Disney needs to clean house of its lefties.

  22. Keifers

    Honor Walt Disney and his legacy he left behind for children,parents,and family.Todays Disney films not made for familys anymore.They are made for messaging and idealism only a small,minority audience wants,or needs.Honor Walt Disney,and children & familys again.There is no original magic left in Disney today.

  23. GPN

    It doesn’t look horrible (though the CGI does). Ms. Zegler is miscast, and it has nothing to do with her skin color. She just isn’t good here. She is in no way Snow White. And, as some have pointed out, the Queen really is far better looking than her, something they clearly realize because the have the mirror saying (essentially), “Inside, though! She’s pretty inside and it’s coming out. So, yeah, that’s why I said that.”

  24. Michael Mayo

    What’s to reveal? She was obviously bitten by a radioactive dwarf..

  25. Tony

    I hope it flops big time. I hope Disney loses a ton of money over this choice of storyline, and for not firing zegler for what she said. Her apologies are disingenuous and are only being said to get people to see the movie.

  26. Tony

    She is not Snow White. She’s not white. Disney is wrong for allowing the origin of Snow White to change.

  27. FrozenWED

    She obviously does not fit the origin, look, or name of the character, so they changed her name origin. She is not good looking enough, so the say her beauty comes from within. Are they going to explain her horrible acting with a scene where she’s dropped on her head as a baby?

  28. Amy

    Snow is my favorite Princess and I will be going to see this when it comes out. That doesn’t mean I am not nervous about the changes but I was pleasantly surprised by the live action Jungle Book so I am hoping I am with this. There have been other Snow White films so telling a different story with the same characters is nothing new. I expect to still love the animation more but I am willing to give it a chance. If I hadn’t been before reading the vile racist comments in this thread they would have changed my mind because I don’t ever want to side with people who would say those things

  29. Cathy

    This is one movie they should have left alone. Not a fan of their live action movies, so I definitely wouldn’t pay to see it. Probably won’t watch it once it streams.

  30. John joe

    Weird movie where the queen is more attractive than snow white so they have to redefine what fairest in the land means. Won’t be going to see this. Cancel Disney subscription people and vote with your wallet.

  31. Ozma

    I understand that few people understand such things (especially in the America of 2024) but folklore embodies numinous currents. They’re not just stories, they contain real power and manifest spirit of the folk from which they’ve emerged. This is why they hold such archetypal resonance for people. The Brothers Grimm totally got this and, intuitively, Walt Disney got it too. The Disney company, who either deny that such currents exist or openly hate them for existing, have messed with something very powerful. Just as this story gave birth to the company, so too it may finish the company.

  32. John D Moore

    I will not be watching it, buying anything related to it or supporting it in any way. The disrespectful attack on the memories of millions is not to be rewarded. I am also amazed that Gal Gadot, an Israeli citizen and veteran was able to be so tolerant of her opinionated cast mate.

  33. Rick

    I won’t be giving Disney a damn penny. I’m white. I don’t care if you add diversity make new stories with a Hispanic female lead…that’s fine. But when you go out if your way to replace me and insult me while at the same time asking me for support and my money?!

    Go to Hell.

    Of all the damn fairy tales that you would think have to star a white protagonist…you would think snow WHITE would be untouchable since her name describes her appearance.

    Skin as WHITE as snow.

    Let this fail. Let Disney go bankrupt until it just gets back to story telling wholesome movies that talk about traditional family values and true love and happy ever afters.

    Not this girl boss, “who needs a man?” nonsense where we all live single and collect cats in bachelor apartments.

    You deserve what you get.
    Until you fire the problem lose money. Go woke, get broke.

    1. Spank You Very Much

      It’s fun to watch powerless keyboard warriors with white privilege get triggered over a fantasy film based on a fairytale.

      #ReductiveAssessmentsFTW

      #SpankedSoundly

      #LiterallyButtHurt

      1. sam

        correction. this is a fantasy film, but it is not based on a fairytale written by the brothers Grimm, and later adapted by Walt Disney.

        if you have been paying attention, the story and plot deviate completely from the actual fairytale. the only likeness that remains are names.

        to the eagle-eyed viewers this simply looks like the use of a revered name that helped Walt Disney build his empire of family entertainment to cash in.

        current Disney leadership would have done well to keep the girl’s mouth shut, that way people may have thought this movie had anything to do with the original and would have gone to see it based only on the name, it might have even had a decent opening weekend before falling on its face, but then, she spoke, and proved this movie is simply a new film that is cashing in on the namesake of a classic.

        this movie is going to get the full Bud Light treatment. current Disney has FA, they are about to FO.

        1. Spank You Very Much

          I didn’t see a correction. Just more butt-hurt hand-wringing masquerading as a correction. “Eagle-eyed viewers” of a two-minute trailer can determine that an entire movie “deviate(s) completely from the actual fairytale”? That’s funny stuff right there. If we apply the same logic you’re using, then Walt’s 1937 adaptation deviated COMPLETELY from the Grimm Brothers’ version. More importantly, how is it having a direct impact on your life? Do you struggle with the idea that such a movie exists? Are you finding it difficult to cope and function?

  34. John M.

    I find that casting is an absolute sham. This was a German fairy tale written by the brothers Grimm. I don’t think they had an actress of Colombian descent with a bad attitude in mind for the role. I’m sure they would prefer “Snow” white!

  35. sam

    what is absolutely horrible is what the first few paragraphs of the article illustrate.

    the original movie was something that shifted culture, it advanced technology, and was so influential it moved the academy to create a special honor. something that has never been duplicated.

    and the geniuses at the company that calls itself Disney thought this was the best way to honor that legacy?

    they could have made a live action movie with this girl, and some CGI and the same exact story they have and named anything else with the story they wrote, but instead they are planning to cash in on the legacy of a timeless classic.

    if the story was at all worth anything it would be able to stand on its own without needing the name of a classic to draw the crowds.

    1. Aunty Polly

      Remakes don’t need to honor a legacy. It would be “absolutely horrible” if they were making changes to the original classic, or replacing the original with the new one, but since all they’re doing is an adaptation that coexists alongside other versions, we continue to have a choice of which one to watch or not watch. My cinematic leisure time is not made worse by the existence of this remake. It simply adds another option to the mix.

      1. Johann

        It’s part of the same process that those who make it have been engaging in for millennia. Manipulate and lie to erase the truth, one small step at a time. Who are they? The ones you aren’t allowed to speak badly about. Connect the dots, Dorothy.

  36. Johann

    Woke White? More BS the lying, thieving culture that builds their own by destroying others. Who are they? The ones you’re not allowed to talk about. Connect the dots, Dorothy.

  37. Johann

    Woke White? More BS from the lying, thieving culture that builds their own by destroying others. Who are they? The ones you’re not allowed to talk about. Connect the dots, Dorothy.

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