Rachel Zegler Responds with a Swift Correction to Commenter Questioning Her Casting as Snow White

Mar. 15, 2025

Rachel Zegler in ‘Snow White’.Photo:Courtesy of Disney

Courtesy of Disney

Rachel Zegleraddressed an Instagram commenter who questioned her casting asSnow White.

“NO thanks,” wrote the commenter, asking Disney why it was “difficult to cast a soprano” as Snow White.

Rachel Zegler on March 12.Pablo Cuadra/Getty Images for Disney

Pablo Cuadra/Getty Images for Disney

Steven Spielberg’s 2021 remake ofWest Side Storycast Zegler in her breakout Hollywood role as Maria. The movie’s part, as in the Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents stage musical, required an actress whose voice is in the soprano range. Zegler earned aGolden Globe Awardfor her performance.

The live-action remake starsGal Gadotas the Evil Queen and the voices and motion-capture performances of actors playing Snow White’s seven friends: Jeremy Swift as Doc, Martin Klebba as Grumpy, George Salazar as Happy, Andy Grotelueschen as Sleepy,Tituss Burgessas Bashful, Jason Kravits as Sneezy, andAndrew Barth Feldmanas Dopey.

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Zegler facedonline backlashin the wake of hercastingas Snow White in 2021, and made headlines when she said in interviews that the movie wouldmodernize the character.

In a February interview withVogue Mexico, theBallad of Songbirds & Snakesstar said, “I interpret people’s feelings about this film as their passion for [the Snow White character] and what an honor to be a part ofsomething that people are so passionate about."

Fresh off voicing the lead character in last year’s animated musicalSpellboundand her Broadway debut oppositeKit Connorin an adaptation of William Shakespeare’sRomeo + Juliet, Zeglerwill next play Eva Perónin a London revival of the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber 1978 musicalEvita.

Snow Whiteis in theaters March 21.

source: people.com