Rachel Zegler, the actress set to play Snow White in the upcoming, live-action remake of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,” was recently caught on tape attacking the plot of the story for being “weird,” presumably meaning that the film is going to be reworked to slake her thirst for being aggrieved. Predictably, she faced backlash for attacking a beloved children’s tale so, equally predictably, she claimed to be victimized.
Speaking about the plot of the story, she said, “I mean, you know, the original cartoon came out in 1937 and very evidently so. There’s a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her. Weird! Weird. So we didn’t do that this time.”
Continuing, she added, “We have a different approach to, what I’m sure a lot of people will assume is a love story, just because we cast a guy in the movie, Andrew Burnap, great dude. It’s one of those things that I think everyone’s going to have their assumptions about what it’s going to be, but it’s really not about the love story at all, which is really, really wonderful.”
Well, that wasn’t the last of it. Zegler went back on tape to play the victim for people not clapping like trained seals at her attacks on the movie, as you can watch here:
Woke Snow White is now playing the victim. Who could have predicted this? pic.twitter.com/A1cLvdmdxD
— Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) August 16, 2023
Beginning, she claimed that her disparaging remarks were taken “out of context,” saying, “So it is gonna get taken out of context. And I know that at this point, I can’t really stop people from doing that, because that’s what my whole existence on the internet is just being taken out of context and stuff, which is fine. That’s what I signed up for, isn’t it?”
Continuing, she claimed, after having gone viral for attacking the story, that she is “grateful” for the opportunity to be in the movie, saying, “But I never want it to come off as me being ungrateful for the opportunities I have, when I say that this has been the biggest adjustment of my life, like understanding the way my life operates now being who I am, and the things that I’ve been so fortunate to make, it comes with so much ground, so much ground that I never thought I would be able to cover and that people think I’m doing poorly, and other people think I’m doing gracefully, and I don’t think I’m doing it at all.”
She then added, “So when I tell you that it’s hard, I just need to be inside my brain. That’s hard. And I’m there 24/7 I can’t, I can’t get out of it. And and I don’t know if that will make sense. Because that’s where I’m at. I’m so grateful for the things that I’m able to do. And a lot of what I’m able to do is because of you guys, and I’m so unbelievably thankful for that at the end of the day. I look at this trip and think if somewhere like that can exist. And so can my tiny pink bedroom from New Jersey, I can also be having the greatest time and simultaneously wishing people would stop sending me death threats.”
And, after all that, she banked hard into playing the victim, saying, “And maybe that’s a weird takeaway for this video. This is a life this is real. It’s filled with a lot of beautiful moments and beautiful people. I have a loving family and incredible boyfriend that I love so much beautiful friends and family people that I miss. It’s a it’s a privilege to miss people the way that I do, but it’s hard. And it’s lonely. It’s very lonely. I just know that if that loneliness can exist so can other things and I will be okay. Maybe that’s a weird takeaway. Regardless, this is not supposed to be anything other than.”
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video
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