Disney’s ‘Snow White’ Rachel Zegler Apologizes for Trump Comments

Rachel Zegler took to Instagram to apologize for her heated response final week to the re-election of Donald Trump.

Disney‘s upcoming Snow White star obtained blowback following her unique publish, the place she declared, “Might Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself by no means know peace,” and “there’s a deep deep illness on this nation,” and, “one other 4 years of hatred, leaning us in direction of a world I don’t need to reside in.”

On Thursday evening, the 23-year-old actress posted a brand new message: “Hello everybody, I wish to sincerely apologize for the election publish I shared on Instagram final week. I let me feelings get one of the best of me. Hatred and anger have brought on us to maneuver additional and additional away from peace and understanding, and I’m sorry I contributed to the destructive discourse. This week has been emotion for thus many people, however I firmly consider that everybody has the fitting to their opinion, even when it differs from my very own. I’m dedicated to contributing positively in direction of a greater tomorrow.”

Zegler’s unique remark blew up on X, the place MAGA supporters slammed the West Facet Story star and vowed to not watch her live-action $200 million Snow White remake, which Disney is releasing in theaters March 25. Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly, setting a fantastic instance on civil discourse, referred to as Zegler a “pig” for her election response, and scolded Disney: “You’re gonna should redo your movie once more, as a result of this girl is a pig, and also you fired Gina Carano for much lower than this nonsense.”

Zegler beforehand clashed with the conservative crowd after her feedback in regards to the unique Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs went viral final 12 months.

“She’s not going to be dreaming about real love,” Zegler stated of the brand new movie. “She’s dreaming about turning into the chief she is aware of she might be and the chief that her late father informed her that she could possibly be if she was fearless, honest, courageous, and true.” And was additionally quoted as saying, “Persons are making these jokes about ours being the PC Snow White, the place it’s like, yeah, it’s — as a result of it wanted that.” She informed EW the unique is “extraordinarily dated relating to the concepts of ladies being in roles of energy and what a girl is match for on the planet.” And informed Additional TV: “The unique cartoon got here out in 1937, and really evidently so. There’s an enormous deal with her love story with a man who actually stalks her. Bizarre. So we didn’t do this this time.”

Snow White was initially scheduled to debut in theaters this 12 months, however was pushed again amid the SAG-AFTRA strike, and in addition to accommodate some obvious modifications to the movie — together with re-doing the Seven Dwarfs to be extra like the unique. Snow White additionally stars Gal Gadot because the Evil Queen, Ansu Kabia because the Huntsman and Martin Klebba as Grumpy.