This top agent probably hasn't considered how this has more or less been Disney's narrative surrounding its own material for a while now. Zegler was maybe saying it slightly louder, but she definitely wasn't going off script.Months later at D23, she criticized the original 1937 “Snow White,” noting that the prince “literally stalks” the heroine. One top agent says that was the moment that Disney allowed Zegler to control the narrative: “The first time she shoots her mouth off, you nip it in the bud.” Instead, the studio said nothing, and purists began to revolt. And as time went on, Disney became increasingly loath to weigh in on anyone’s speech considering that the studio was sued in 2024 by actress Gina Carano, who claims she was fired from “The Mandalorian” for voicing her opinions on hot-button issues.
I don't know. Did Disney make any attempt to rein Kristen Bell in after her comments about Snow White and Sleeping Beauty and consent?
), racebending and supposedly severely altering SW the character. Most of those turned out not to be the case in the end--and even the racebend wasn't that big a deal considering she looked mostly like SW after all--but it's hard to break initial impressions about a film. Enough people had already written the film off as another in the vein of Mulan and TLM. Of course, TLM turned out to be fairly faithful--if you saw it, and its box office being nearly half of what it could've been says half or at least a third of its potential audience passed on seeing it because it sounded and looked as if it would be just as unfaithful as Mulan had been (nixing Ariel's hair, changing song lyrics, etc.). No doubt Mulan being ruined burned a lot of viewers in part because it was terrible on top of being priced so high on streaming.