^ That's nothing new, those kinds of anodyne PR statements were expected. Disney knows how to use the media to bash critics of their bad decision-making, going by how they handled the backlash to casting someone who looked nothing like Ariel in TLM. That's why I don't mind using the race card back at the company in regards to cutting the music and the Muses out of
Hercules, despite those being some of the first Black characters in animation and one of the first--or
the first?--musical dominated by Black voices.
Zegler, like Bailey, is just an innocent bystander in the situation; but I will say, I imagine she and the media would be saying something else entirely if a Latina was cast as Mulan or Tiana, or someone Asian was cast as Mirabel.
I actually would've rather they'd picked someone Asian here, because at least that would have still fit the snow white skin / ebony hair description.
I'm glad she's being criticized for playing a character she shouldn't have in WSS; too bad the world is too cowardly to be consistent and criticize her for playing a classic White character like Snow White, too, though.
Although I suppose Maleficent sequel had the Holocaust-like extermination of the fairies.
