Rachel Zegler Reveals New Snow White Origin For Disney Movie

Disney’s Snow White gets an updated origin story for the upcoming movie starring Rachel Zegler as the titular character and Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen.

In the original story, Snow White is called the name because her skin is as white as snow. However, the Disney movie drops the “skin as white as snow” origin and explains it that the baby princess survived a snow storm, so her parents give her the name.

Via Variety:

As for that line about “skin as white as snow,” Zegler reveals that the new film has its own origin story for her name. “It fell back to another version of ‘Snow White’ that was told in history, where she survived a snowstorm that occurred when she was a baby,” she says. “And so the king and queen decided to name her Snow White to remind her of her resilience. One of the core points in our film for any young woman or young person is remembering how strong you actually are.”

Rachel Zegler also came under fire for her comments regarding the original animated classic. She called the movie “weird” and said Prince Charming is a stalker. However, now she changes her tune and says romance is still a part of the film.

“In all honesty, it made me sad that it was taken in such a way, because I believe that women can do anything. But I also believe that they can do everything,” Zegler says. What she’d meant to convey was that Snow White wants romance but has other goals too.

“I would never want to box someone in and say, ‘If you want love, then you can’t work.’ Or ‘If you want to work, then you can’t have a family.’ It’s not true. It’s never been true. It can be very upsetting when things get taken out of context or jokes don’t land,” Zegler says. “The love story is very integral. A lot of people wrote that we weren’t doing [that storyline] anymore — we were always doing that; it just wasn’t what we were talking about on that day.”

Disney has pushed the Snow White release date back a year, it now comes out on March 21, 2025. The first trailer released in August has 1.2 million dislikes from fans on YouTube.

“This is actually hilarious. The first Snow White saved Disney. The second ruined it,” says the top comment with over 31k likes from fans.