Each fairy story has a starting.
Rachel Zegler talked about her audition course of for the controversial “Snow White” remake throughout her look on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday.
The 23-year-old actress revealed that she was solid within the Disney movie earlier than the world noticed her efficiency in 2021’s “West Side Story” directed by Steven Spielberg.
“I actually got a really glowing recommendation from Steven Spielberg to Marc Webb, who directed ‘Snow White,’” Zegler shared on the late-night ABC present.
“And I also got a text from Steven kind of alluding to the fact that I had gotten the part before I found out,” she stated. “I wished him a Happy Father’s Day and he texted me a bunch of apple emojis as a response.”
Zegler joked that Spielberg, 78, “was giving Taylor Swift easter eggs” about her casting in “Snow White.”
The Golden Globe winner’s audition for the movie was completed in excessive secrecy.
“With all these Disney things, it’s like Marvel, Star Wars, Disney live-actions, you have no idea what you’re reading,” she defined. “It’ll say like, ‘Untitled Disney live-action film,’ and the sides will have different names. It’ll say like, ‘Amber and Jeff.’ So I was reading for ‘Amber’ in ‘untitled Disney live-action.’”
“And it wasn’t until I had that first read with Marc Webb on Zoom that he had let it slip that I was actually conversing with Dopey. And then in the back of my head I went, ‘OK,’” Zegler added.
Relating to doing live-action alongside CGI characters just like the seven dwarfs, Zegler known as it “the hardest thing I’ve ever done.”
“It’s amazingly rewarding when you see it and you complete it to say this is the thing that we did,” she advised Kimmel, 57. “But you basically do three different versions of every scene. You do one with humans in the space, so you’re having an emotional connection with somebody. And then you do it with puppets, in our case, for Dopey and Grumpy and these iconic characters.”
“And then you do what’s called a clean pass, where it’s essentially me doing ‘Whistle While You Work’ to nobody, dancing and singing,” Zegler went on. “And the thing you have to do with props, because they need to turn the prop into a GC prop and put it into the CG character’s hand, you just drop it on the floor. That cut of the movie I hope comes out someday, where it’s just me dropping things on the floor.”
The “Snow White” remake, out March 21, has confronted backlash ever since Disney’s choice to substitute the fairy story’s seven dwarfs with CGI to “avoid reinforcing stereotypes” from the unique 1937 movie.
Zegler has been lambasted by critics for her criticism of the animated film. In 2022, she known as Prince Charming a “stalker” and promised to deliver “a modern edge” to the remake.
After Zegler went on a social media rant in opposition to those that voted for Donald Trump within the 2024 election, followers vowed to boycott the movie. Zegler can also be in an alleged feud with co-star Gal Gadot over their opposing views on the Israel-Palestine battle.
Because of the many controversies, Disney hosted a low-key premiere for the movie in Los Angeles over the weekend as an alternative of a typical media-packed crimson carpet.
Zegler and Gadot, 39, have been each on the premiere and took photos collectively regardless of their reported drama.
“Snow White” is in theaters on Friday.
