Is Rachel Zegler the cause of the failure of Snow White?

Behind the scenes, Disney reproaches the actress for having weighed the film’s promotion with her political comments.

The remake in real shots of Snow white has missed its start. 88 million dollars in revenue worldwide, it is too little for a blockbuster that would have cost almost 270 million. On the side of Disneynecessarily, we are looking for the reasons for this failure. The reasons, or rather the culprit …

Variety has published a detailed report on the drama that has come behind the scenes in recent months and would be the cause of the announced flop of the new Snow white. Rachel Zegler is presented there as the scapegoat. In question, his speeches on social networks. In particular his “Free Palestine” posted in August 2024 after a tweet celebrating the figures of the film’s first teaser.

Disney has hardly appreciated Zegler disrupts the promotion of such a super production with a political message. And Marc Platt, the film’s producer, went to speak to him alone. But the actress, who had already heated herself with the studio during the campaign of West Side Storydid not want to know anything. She has not erased the post, still online at the time of writing. And Disney would have strengthened security around her game partner, the Israeli actress Gal Gadot Who plays the queen, after death threats.

A few months later, Rachel Zegler crissed Disney again with his “Fuck Donald Trump” dropped after the election of the President of the United States, accompanied by a message for his voters. Or half of the potential hearing of Snow whitein the mind of Disney, which then stuck a guru of social networks in the legs to control his posts until the release of the film. This time, she apologized.

According to VarietyDisney’s error would have been not to have cropped the actress from her first “skid”, in 2023, during an interview granted on the sidelines of the D23 where she had criticized the Snow white original : “The animated film was released in 1937 and it shows. She falls in love with a guy who stalkes it. Weird ! So we didn’t do this this time“.”The first time she opened it, it would have been necessary to kill it in the egg“, estimates an agent quoted by the American media.

We cannot help noting that this article is still very dependent against Rachel Zegler. He totally omits that the film has been rejected by a part of the public from the start, and that Zegler was the subject of racist attacks as soon as his casting was announced. The first photos stolen on the set, and the choice of having “dwarfs” (officially magical creatures in the film) in digital, had also been strongly criticized.

If the Snow white From 2025 is too “woke” for a sectors of spectators, is it the fault of Rachel Zegler? On social networks, many Internet users defense, believing that it is on the contrary one of the rare successes of the film.

Another question: does Rachel Zegler may be black listed in Hollywood, as Melissa Barrerawhich only plays in inded films since his eviction of the franchise Scream For similar words? The latter in any case supported her colleague after the publication of the article of Variety : “It made it super cool and full of integrity“.