Snow White star Rachel Zegler has been branded a ‘fake feminist’ after several videos of her trashing the original cartoon version of the hit movie resurfaced online – sparking outrage from Disney lovers.
Not only has the 22-year-old admitted that she ‘hated’ the original 1937 movie, she also described the film’s Prince as a ‘stalker’ and branded the storyline ‘weird’.
Rachel also promised that her version of Snow White is ‘not going to be saved by the prince’ and said ‘she’s not going to be dreaming about true love’.
Several videos of Rachel speaking negatively about the original movie in various interviews last year have resurfaced online, which has led to many people slamming her and some even accused the brunette of ‘gaslighting’ her fans.
In one video that was posted on TikTok last week and has since been viewed over 9.4 million times, user Angie, who goes by the handle @cosywithangie, criticized Rachel for failing to acknowledge that women have the right to pursue whatever they want.
Angie captioned the post: ‘Just because a woman values something different, does not make her any less valuable. Some women want a career and not marriage.
‘Some women want a marriage or family and not a job. Some women want BOTH. All are to be heard, and seen, and valued.
‘Write stories about ALL women and depict them ALL as valuable and worthy, instead of trying to mold them into one specific image of what you deem worthy. Thank you. #snowwhite #snowwhiteliveaction #snowwhitecontroversy #disney,’ she added.
The TikTok post began with a clip of Rachel speaking to Variety back in September 2022, where she clarified what she meant when she said she was bringing a modern edge to the Disney Princess character.
‘I just mean that it’s no longer 1937. She’s not going to be saved by the prince and she’s not going to be dreaming about true love,’ Rachel said.
‘She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be and the leader that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave, and true.’
The video then cut to Angie as she shared and thoughts and argued: ‘I could literally write a PhD thesis on the pseudo feminism that is criticizing Disney Princesses.
‘Criticizing Disney Princesses is not feminist. Not every woman is a leader, not every woman wants to be a leader, not every woman wants or craves power, and that’s okay.’
She continued: ‘It is not anti-feminist to want to fall in love, to want to get married, to want to stay at home, to want to be a homemaker. None of these things make you less valuable as a person or a woman.’
