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Sometimes I feel sorry for Rachel Zegler. She’s clearly a very talented young woman and has huge potential. She just found herself in a situation where, as somebody who is in Generation Z, she didn’t realise that her female social media opinions were not real life. She wasn’t protected, managed, or well-advised when the whole Snow White controversy blew up.
In a recent interview with Harper’s Bazaar about the backlash she faced after her comments about the original were deemed disparaging, her casting, and her social media posts.
In the interview, she references the racial backlash she was on the receiving end of for West Side Story, too:
“I was told I wasn’t enough of one thing for ‘West Side Story’ and too much of another for ‘Snow White’. I grew up proud of being Colombian. Eating the food, wearing the dresses, drinking the coffee, doing all the things that were so intrinsic to who I was as a kid and who I am as an adult — but I do think there’s an argument to be made that, in the public eye at least, when you’re two things, you’re simultaneously nothing. But I refuse to assimilate for anybody else’s comfort.”
She addressed the backlash from her political postings on social media, and it is here where one of her management team really needs to explain the “Law of Holes” to her:
“You live, and you learn, and there’s a caution that comes with that. There’s an understanding that the temptation to speak doesn’t always mean that it must be done, and that there are a lot of opportunities to make more meaningful change than a tweet… If I’d been able to predict everything that would come my way, the threats to my safety, I would have just thrown my phone into the ocean. I think any sane person would have.”
She clearly understands that her noble intent (to her) was completely wasted, given the potential lack of upside around impact.
Zegler has recently been getting rave reviews for her time as Evita in London’s West End. Perhaps that is due for a big-screen remake, as the Madonna version was a lifetime ago.
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