Rachel Zegler talks about the casting backlash she has received: “I was told I wasn’t enough of one thing for West Side Story and too much of another for Snow White”
As a disclaimer, I love Rachel Zegler and I loved her in WSS *but* I wonder if critics of her casting as Maria have a point? She mentions here that she is Colombian but Maria is Puerto Rican (I know that the criticism she is addressing is about her being biracial). I can’t speak for Puerto Ricans, but I know that if the Prince of Egypt was remade and Zendaya was cast as Zipporah I wouldn’t be impressed.
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They set her up… from the whole dwarves drama, where Disney felt they couldn’t cast little people because of what actor Peter Dinklage said then they tried to make them fantasy creatures but that wasn’t well recieved so settled on uncanny cgi dwarves. to the casting of the evil Queen to the awful styling they gave her, like the lord farquad hairstyle seriously?
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They could never make me hate you, Rachel Zegler!
As a disclaimer, I love Rachel Zegler and I loved her in WSS *but* I wonder if critics of her casting as Maria have a point? She mentions here that she is Colombian but Maria is Puerto Rican (I know that the criticism she is addressing is about her being biracial). I can’t speak for Puerto Ricans, but I know that if the Prince of Egypt was remade and Zendaya was cast as Zipporah I wouldn’t be impressed.
They set her up… from the whole dwarves drama, where Disney felt they couldn’t cast little people because of what actor Peter Dinklage said then they tried to make them fantasy creatures but that wasn’t well recieved so settled on uncanny cgi dwarves. to the casting of the evil Queen to the awful styling they gave her, like the lord farquad hairstyle seriously?