Rachel Zegler looked somber as she was pictured out in New York City this week, following the humiliating box office performance of her latest film, Snow White.
The actress, 23, whose strong political opinions have been blamed for the film’s poor performance in theatres, was spotted walking her dog, a goldendoodle called Lenny.
Rachel, who played the title character in the so-called ‘woke‘ film, sported an oversized denim jacket over a blue shirt, a pair of large grey sweatpants, and Adidas sneakers, and appeared deflated by the film’s recent performance.
Her long dark hair was pushed back with a wide black headband, and she appeared to go makeup-free for the outing, sporting what looked to be a green star-shaped pimple patch on her forehead.
Disney is set to post a $115million loss on the Snow White remake after it faced an online ‘review-bombing’ campaign and threats from both fans of Zegler and her co-star Gal Gadot to boycott the film over their diverging political views.
The studio spent a reported $270million on the film before marketing and distribution – but it has so far failed to break even.
Its performance has been so disastrous that the House of Mouse has even hit pause on the production of a live-action remake of 2010 Rapunzel retelling Tangled as it re-evaluates its current strategy.
Critical reviews of Snow White were mixed to start – with reviewers finding fault with the CGI dwarves and the modern updates to the plot that changed Snow White from a fawning princess-to-be into a feminist leader-in-waiting.
Rachel Zegler, 23, looked somber as she was pictured out in New York City this week, following the humiliating box office performance of her latest film, Snow White
But behind the scenes, Zegler and co-star Gadot reportedly had a falling out after shooting wrapped – potentially over their differing views on Israel.
Gadot is a former IDF instructor and proud Israeli – while Zegler stoked controversy by tweeting ‘free Palestine’ in a series of posts made 24 hours after the first trailer for Snow White debuted last summer.
Reports in Variety suggested the film’s producer Marc Platt flew from Los Angeles to New York to ask Zegler to be mindful of her social media use – after which she wrote ‘f*** Donald Trump’ on Instagram following his election win.
She then reportedly agreed to allow a social media professional to vet her posts before she put them up.
Subsequent activities have included a series of behind-the-scenes pictures taken on the Snow White set, posted to her Instagram. Gadot does not feature in any of the images.
Zegler also sparked controversy after she laid into the 1937 original – the first ever feature-length animated movie – by calling the prince character ‘weird’ and claiming he sets out to ‘stalk’ Snow White in the film’s early scenes.
The character was written out and replaced with a Robin Hood-esque bandit in the new version of the movie.
Earlier this week Zegler put on a brave face while attending the opening of George Clooney’s Broadway play Good Night And Good Luck, in New York amid reports the film was set to lose a staggering amount at the box office.
Snow White had a reported production budget of up to $270 million, not counting the hundreds of millions poured into publicity and advertising that mean a film needs to make two to three times its budget in order to truly turn a profit.
Instead, Snow White opened with a disappointing $42.2 million at the domestic box office last weekend, and then it dropped a whopping 66% drop in its second weekend.
It’s currently taken in $77 million at the domestic box office after two weekends and $168.6 million worldwide.
It has a Rotten Tomatoes critical score of 40 per cent – but has proven more popular with audiences, with verified filmgoers rating it 72 per cent.
The film was ‘review-bombed’ in a hate campaign on IMDb, where it has a score of 1.6 out of 10 from 325,000 users. It prompted IMDB to add a note to the score warning of ‘unusual voting activity’.
But even in production the film was plagued with controversies – from the casting of Zegler, of Colombian-Polish descent, to the decision to recreate the dwarfs as CGI characters rather than employing actors with dwarfism.
Amid the film’s many controversies Rachel was criticized for her political views after tweeting ‘free Palestine’ with claims the studio ‘didn’t know what to do’ with the outspoken actress.
The actress, who has been criticized for the film bombing in theaters amid a string of controversies, was spotted walking her dog
Earlier this week Zegler put on a brave face while attending the opening of George Clooney’s Broadway play Good Night And Good Luck, in New York
It comes amid claims that Disney will likely suffer a loss of $115 million from the film; Zegler seen in a still
Disney has been aggressively pursuing a strategy of live-action remakes for 15 years, starting with the Tim Burton-directed Alice In Wonderland remake.
Early remakes such as Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book were both box office and critical darlings, but recent remakes have been derided as sloppy and derivative.
A number of remakes, including Robert Zemeckis’ Pinocchio and Peter Pan and Wendy, have also been shuttled off to Disney+ as streaming-only exclusives rather than cinematic releases.
Box office returns have also been diminishing on recent remakes such as the Lion King prequel Mufasa, suggesting audiences are growing tired of a lack of creativity from Disney executives.
Sean Bailey, Disney’s head of film production who spearheaded the live-action remake strategy, left the company last year.
At least two more remakes, Lilo and Stitch and Moana, are in the pipeline – but a live-action version of Tangled has been indefinitely shelved just months after it was announced, per the Hollywood Reporter.
Rachel’s former West Side Story co-star Ariana DeBose made an embarrassing backtrack after inadvertently trashing her amid the movie’s release.
DeBose shared a direct quote from Jonah Platt, 38, the son of Snow White producer Marc Platt, 67, in which he seemingly blamed the film’s failure on Zegler.
Her post, shared on a colorful rose backdrop to her Instagram account, read: ‘Narcissism is not something to be coddled or encouraged.’
The message has since been deleted, with DeBose swiftly erasing it from her timeline and insisting she was unaware it was about Zegler, 34, in a follow-up post.
An apology to Zegler was absent from her clarification.
‘I post quotes all the time and thought this one was meaningful. Will fully cop to the fact I did not do any research on where this quote came from, nor did I know of the connection until it was pointed out to me,’ DeBose, 34, wrote on her Instagram Stories on Tuesday.
‘I have no intention of inserting myself into a news cycle. This is not the first time I’ve posted about narcissism and it probably won’t be the last, but next time I’ll be sure to clarify it’s origins first.’
DeBose and Zegler were rumored to have had a falling out towards the latter end of West Side Story’s 2022 awards season campaign.
A live-action remake of 2010 Rapunzel retelling Tangled (pictured) has been shelved indefinitely following Snow White’s muted performance at the box office
Amid the film’s many controversies Rachel was criticized for her political views after tweeting ‘free Palestine’ with claims the studio ‘didn’t know what to do’ with the outspoken actress
Rachel’s former West Side Story co-star Ariana DeBose recently made an embarrassing backtrack after inadvertently trashing her (pictured together in 2021)
DeBose directly quoted Snow White producer Marc Platt’s nepo baby son Jonah, who recently slammed ‘narcissistic’ Zegler in an now-deleted tirade, however she has now insisted she was unaware the message was about Zegler
While it’s unclear what or if any drama occurred between them, Zegler failed to publicly congratulate DeBose, who she’d previously shown fondness for, on her historic Best Supporting Actress win at that year’s Oscars.
And producer Marc Platt’s son Jonah shocked fans last week when he unleashed his fury on Zegler, seemingly blaming her for the film flopping.
Jonah, who is Marc’s eldest child, took to Instagram in a now-deleted post to brand Zegler as ‘immature’ and insinuate she has ‘narcissistic’ tendencies.
He did so in response to a fan comment, which referenced an article published by Variety that claimed Marc had flown to New York to speak to Zegler about her controversial pro-Palestine social media posts.
The fan comment read: ‘Your dad flew to NYC to reprimand a young actress? Any words on this? Cuz that’s creepy as hell and uncalled for. People have the right to free speech no? Shame on your father.’
Jonah, whose younger brother Ben Platt, 31, is an award-winning actor/singer, shot back with an angry rant which began: ‘You really want to do this?’
‘Yeah, my dad, the producer of the enormous piece of Disney IP with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, had to leave his family to fly across the country to reprimand his 20-year-old employee for dragging her personal politics into the middle of promoting the movie for which she signed a multi-million dollar contract to get paid and do publicly for.’
Marc Platt’s son Jonah shocked fans last week when he unleashed his fury on Zegler, seemingly blaming her for the film flopping
He did so in response to a fan comment, which referenced an article published by Variety that claimed Marc had flown to New York to speak to Zegler about her controversial pro-Palestine social media posts
The host of the Being Jewish Podcast continued, saying her actions ‘clearly’ hurt the film’s box office.
‘Free speech does not mean you’re allowed to say whatever you want in your private employment without repercussions,’ he continued.
‘Tens of thousands of people worked on that film and she hijacked the conversation for her own immature desires at the risk of the colleagues and crew and blue collar workers who depend on that movie to be successful.’
‘Narcissism is not something to be coddled or encouraged,’ Jonah concluded his explosive rant.
He later deleted the rant after being challenged on Gadot’s pro-Israel views.
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