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Rachel Zegler is stepping into Snow White’s golden slippers
Disney has pledged to cast more diverse leads in its upcoming films, following Halle Bailey’s take on Ariel in the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. In that vein, Snow White is being played by Rachel Zegler, who has dazzled audiences with her singing and dancing in recent years in the likes of West Side Story and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.
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The Evil Queen, meanwhile, will be played by Gal Gadot
Another recent trend at Disney? Reevaluating its villains, from Maleficent to Cruella. Wonder Woman’s Gal Gadot is set to appear as “the fairest of them all,” the Evil Queen who orders the murder of her stepdaughter Snow White, only for the princess to escape into a forest and hole up with the seven dwarves. Cue the Queen disguising herself as a “hag” and setting off to find Snow White with a poisoned apple that will put her to sleep for 100 years. The question is: Is she a deranged psychopath who chats to mirrors, or just another victim of gendered ageism?
