Disney’s Future snow white Star Rachel Zegler is facing backlash after promoting her new musical film with a call to “Liberate Palestine,” a phrase used by anti-Israel activists to call for the elimination of the Jewish state.
On Saturday, Disney released the first trailer for the live-action version online. snow white The remake will star Zegler as Snow White and Israeli actress and model Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen, and is scheduled for release in March 2025.
After posting a new trailer, the 23-year-old West Side Story The star expressed his excitement at the video’s sudden popularity.
“[I] “Love you all! Thank you for all the love and thank you for the 120 million views of the trailer in just 24 hours! That’s crazy,” she wrote on Monday.[I] “I’m in the middle of rehearsing Romeo + Juliet so I’ll be out soon. See you then.”
“[A]And always remember to liberate Palestine,” she added in a follow-up post.
And always remember to liberate Palestine.
— Rachel Zegler (she/her/them) (@rachelzegler) August 12, 2024
The post sparked backlash, with many taking the message as a personal attack on his Israeli co-star.
“How sadly small-minded and ignorant you are,” wrote journalist Emily Schrader.
What a sadly narrow-minded and ignorant person you are.
— Emily Schrader – Facebook Twitter Pinterest (@emilykschrader) August 13, 2024
“Rachel Zegler is mocking her much more famous and beautiful ‘Snow White’ co-star Gal Gadot,” wrote Medium contributor Joel Petrin. “Disney continues to hire the wrong actors to represent their brand. Instead of promoting their films, they choose to embarrass themselves and their studio.”
Rachel Zegler is poking fun at her much more famous and beautiful Snow White co-star, Gal Gadot.
Disney continues to hire actors who are unsuitable to represent their brand, and instead of promoting their films, they choose to embarrass themselves and their studio. https://t.co/Llt0WkScrR
— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) August 13, 2024
“Gal Gadot has to pretend to be jealous of her man’s looks, in what is the toughest performance she’s ever had to pull off,” British journalist Nio Berg wrote.
Gal Gadot has to pretend to be jealous of your looks. Hardest acting role ever 😂😭 https://t.co/Z2Z4ZObjuU pic.twitter.com/JhhNRmuaqE
— ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) August 13, 2024
“It’s so pathetic that he would take the head of a co-star who actually fought in a war just to look cool in front of his kids,” wrote user X.
It’s really pathetic that he would take the head of a co-star who actually experienced war just to look cool in front of his kids.
— Maya Goldin (@maya_goldin) August 13, 2024
on the other hand, snow white Even after the trailer was released, Israeli actress Gal Gadot face There was an anti-Semitic backlash, and pro-Palestinian commentators criticized her casting and called for a boycott because of her history.
Some anti-Semitic haters are not happy.
Because the beautiful Israeli actress Gal Gadot plays the Queen in Snow White, and she’s more beautiful than anyone else… and they’re just moody and goofy. pic.twitter.com/l4BL7NUz6o— Michael Dickson (@michaeldickson) August 11, 2024
Zegler previously It is called Israel held protests calling for a “free Palestine” in May and again in 2021 after Hamas fired rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel, some of which hit Israeli homes and schools, forcing the Israeli army to retaliate.
It will always be a free Palestine.
— Rachel Zegler (she/her/them) (@rachelzegler) May 17, 2021
That same year, Zegler called the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, a conservative activist who was initially arrested for shooting and killing three rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a “paradigm shift of white privilege” and “exactly what’s wrong with this godforsaken country.”
That Kyle Rittenhouse committed such a heinous crime and was acquitted of all charges is the epitome of white privilege and truly shows what is wrong with this godforsaken country.
— Rachel Zegler (she/her/them) (@rachelzegler) November 19, 2021
She also Be warned Following the controversy over Steven Spielberg’s film “Prisoner of Azkaban,” he blamed Americans for not speaking Spanish. West Side StoryThere are no subtitles.
snow white Since then, it has faced a flood of negative press. Zegler An old video has resurfaced in which an actress disparages the 1937 original, claims the Prince is a creepy stalker and that women no longer crave romance, resulting in a PR disaster for Disney.
“It’s not 1937 anymore,” she said proudly. Declared.
Disney’s PR team continues its pathetic attempt at damage control
Rachel Zegler, who panned the original Snow White for not being woke enough, is now singing its praises.
Then: Now: pic.twitter.com/HftSx3RzHv
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 9, 2023
On a SAG-AFTRA picket line in August, actresses demanded to be “paid for every hour” that Disney films are streamed.
“If you’re going to stand there for 18 hours wearing an iconic Disney princess dress, you’re entitled to be paid for every hour that it’s streamed online.”
The new Snow White is the most insufferable woman I’ve ever seen. pic.twitter.com/U1swu4roRl
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 2, 2023
after that, video A video of Zegler fighting back tears in response to the criticism went viral.
This issue comes as the progressive left continues to promote racial double standards and “woke” ideology.
Last April, Disney release live-action Peter Pan and Wendy The show featured a diverse cast, with non-white actors playing the roles of Peter Pan and Tinker Bell (though Jude Law’s Captain Hook is also white), young girls as the Lost Boys, and an adapted version of J.M. Barrie’s original novel.
The film, directed by indie filmmaker David Lowery, has been described as “woke” and “multicultural,” while Chicago-based writer Noah Berlatsky Charged Racism and colonialism are “built into the fabric” of the Peter Pan story
This is yet another remake of a Disney classic.
Peter Pan is Indian
Tinkerbell is black
Lost Boy is a girl
Captain Hook is still white pic.twitter.com/m7wvq1U36n— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 2, 2023
According to Berlatsky, switching Casting non-white actors is “not enough” to address the story’s central issues.
Disney makes a profit plummet The stock price has fallen 44% due to the tough conditions in 2022, but it is still Wind up From a number of failed projects, including an animated environmental film Strange Worldwhich portrayed a gay teen protagonist, and Pixar’s Toy Story Spin-off films Lightyearwhich Featured Lesbian kiss.
“I think we’re in the endgame now.”
actor Richard Dreyfuss He speaks about the resurgence of civics education and his fears for the country’s future — plus, he calls Hollywood’s new standards of inclusion “nauseating.”
Tonight at 8:30pm ET@PBS list: https://t.co/yjV9uYyL5J pic.twitter.com/njuxohjD5d
— Margaret Hoover’s Firing Line (@FiringLineShow) May 5, 2023
last year, Jaws Starring Richard Dreyfuss stated He says Hollywood’s “thoughtless” new diversity and inclusion standards make him “nauseous.”
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