Rachel Zegler is giving main Disney Princess power within the first official look of the live-action Snow White film.
On Friday, October 27, Disney unveiled a brand new picture of Zegler, 22, dressed as the enduring character. Zegler donned Snow White’s iconic blue and yellow robe with pink sneakers and the character’s iconic bob. Within the image, Zegler’s Snow White is surrounded by all seven of the dwarfs from the traditional cartoon: Dopey, Grumpy, Sneezy, Bashful, Completely happy, Sleepy and Doc.
It was additionally introduced on Friday that the remake of the 1937 animated movie would premiere in theaters on March 21, 2025, as an alternative of its unique scheduled date of March 22, 2024.
Alongside Zegler, who’s the primary Latina to tackle Snow White, the movie stars Ansu Kabia because the Huntsman, Andrew Burnap as a brand new character named Jonathan and Gal Gadot because the Evil Queen.
Zegler gushed about how excited and proud she was to painting the character when she nabbed the position in 2021.
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“By no means in 1,000,000 years did I think about that this is able to be a risk for me,” Zegler stated in a January 2022 interview with Selection. “You don’t usually see Snow Whites which can be of Latin descent. Although Snow White can be a huge deal in Spanish-speaking international locations. Blanca Nieves is a large icon whether or not you’re speaking in regards to the Disney cartoon or simply totally different iterations and the Grimm fairy story and all of the tales that include it. However you don’t significantly see individuals who seem like me or are me enjoying roles like that.”
As time handed, Zegler made headlines for her feedback about how the brand new movie could have a “fashionable edge” in comparison with the unique.
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“The unique cartoon got here out in 1937 and really evidently so. There’s a giant concentrate on her love story with a man who actually stalks her,” she stated to ExtraTV in 2022. “Bizarre. Bizarre. So we didn’t try this this time … Now we have a unique method to what I’m positive lots of people will assume is a love story simply because we forged a man within the film … It’s a kind of issues that I believe everybody’s going to have their assumptions about what it’s truly going to be, but it surely’s actually not in regards to the love story in any respect, which is actually, actually fantastic.”
Zegler defined that the remake is not going to have its star “be saved by the prince” nor “dreaming about real love.” As an alternative, Zegler’s Snow White will concentrate on “turning into the chief she is aware of she will be.”
