Rachel Zegler, who plays Snow White in Disney’s upcoming live-action reimagining, tells PEOPLE the character from the 1937 classic “does not work for today’s audience” so they went for a “new version”
Rachel Zegler is Snow White for a whole new generation.
The 1937 Disney animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs serves as the inspiration for the upcoming live-action reimagining, but don’t expect a beat-by-beat retelling.
“Most of my character does not work for today’s audience, I’ll just say it,” Zegler — who plays the lead princess in the movie opposite Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen — told PEOPLE at the D23 Expo on Friday, comparing their new version to the original. “We did a really deep dive into fixing and making a modern woman out of Snow White.”
She and the filmmakers set out to “make a new version of the character.”
“I think she’s 13 in the original cartoon, so we started there and said, ‘No, she’s 18 in this one.’ She’s a bit more independent,” Zegler, 21, continues. “She’s also living in grief. I mean, there was a lot of complex emotion that we decided to deep-dive into. And understanding what it’s like to be a teenager on top of all that.”
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