{"id":402064,"date":"2022-02-01T03:49:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T00:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/rachel-zegler-blasts-snow-white-casting-backlash\/"},"modified":"2022-02-01T03:49:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T00:49:42","slug":"rachel-zegler-blasts-snow-white-casting-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/rachel-zegler-blasts-snow-white-casting-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"#Rachel Zegler blasts &#8216;Snow White&#8217; casting backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Rachel Zegler blasts &#8216;Snow White&#8217; casting backlash<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Rachel Zegler isn\u2019t going down without a fight.<\/p>\n<p>The breakout \u201cWest Side Story\u201d star, 20, discussed her casting as a Latina Snow White in the upcoming Disney live-action film and the immense backlash she received.<\/p>\n<p>Zegler got candid with actor Andrew Garfield for <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/news\/andrew-garfield-spider-man-rachel-zegler-snow-white-west-side-story-1235165275\/\">Variety\u2019s Actors on Actors roundtable<\/a> where she blasted the hate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it was announced, it was a huge thing that was trending on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> for days, because all of the people were angry,\u201d she told the 38-year-old \u201cEyes of Tammy Faye\u201d star.<\/p>\n<p>Garfield then quipped, \u201cAh, those people. The people that we need to educate. The people that we need to love into awareness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to love them in the right direction,\u201d Zegler added about people who criticized her race.<\/p>\n<p>The New Jersey native continued, \u201cNever in a million years did I imagine that this would be a possibility for me. You don\u2019t normally see Snow Whites that are of Latin descent. Even though Snow White is really a big deal in Spanish-speaking countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Andrew Garfield &amp; Rachel Zegler | Actors on Actors - Full Conversation\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2E5dGl_7FI0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>She then discussed with Garfield the 2012 black-and-white Spanish film<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1854513\/\"> \u201cBlancaNieves,\u201d <\/a>which is based on the 1812 fairy tale\u00a0\u201cSnow White\u201d\u00a0by the\u00a0Brothers Grimm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlancaNieves is a huge icon whether you\u2019re talking about the Disney cartoon or just different iterations and the Grimm fairy tale and all the stories that come with it. But you don\u2019t particularly see people who look like me or are me playing roles like that,\u201d Zegler said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, I have a job to do that I\u2019m really excited to do. I get to be\u00a0a Latina princess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her casting for the new adaption was announced last year, and she is set to star alongside Gal Gadot and Andrew Burnap in the movie musical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCyrano\u201d star Peter Dinklage previously called out Disney and the movie. He accused the feature of stereotyping dwarves, despite the progressive decision to hire Zegler. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Peter-Dinklage_97.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Peter Dinklage attends the UK Premiere of &quot;CYRANO&quot; at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on December 07, 2021 in London, England.\" class=\"wp-image-20956932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Peter-Dinklage_97.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Peter-Dinklage_97.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Peter-Dinklage_97.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Dinklage slammed Disney and their upcoming adaption of \u201cSnow White.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for Metro-Goldwyn-M<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just like, what are you doing?\u201d the 52-year-old (who has a form of dwarfism) said on the \u201cWTF With Marc Maron\u201d podcast. Dinklage said he found the movie hypocritical as they were \u201cvery proud to cast a Latina actress as Snow White.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re progressive in one way, but then you\u2019re still making that f \u2013 \u2013 king backwards story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together, what the f- \u2013 k are you doing, man?\u201d the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a> of Thrones\u201d actor spewed. \u201cTake a step back and look at what you\u2019re doing there. It makes no sense to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Disney responded to Dinklage\u2019s comments and said they would be rethinking the story and working with culture consultants to improve the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The breakout \u201cWest Side Story\u201d star, 20, discussed her casting as a Latina Snow White in the upcoming Disney live-action film and the immense backlash she received. Zegler got candid with actor Andrew Garfield for Variety\u2019s Actors on Actors roundtable&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":402065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/rachel-zegler.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[125211,75060,1569,72707,26249],"class_list":["post-402064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-31-22","tag-andrew-garfield","tag-disney","tag-musicals","tag-west-side-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}