Snow White (Live-Action)

[Disney's Divinity]

I don't think the cast or their opinions/likeability had much if anything to do with it. The film is based off an old property which already meant it had limited potential--only Alice and TJB have managed to get to the billion mark of all their remakes of pre-90s titles (Alice likely because it was seen as a Tim Burton film, not "a remake")--and they started the film up with the impression they were going to change everything via race bends, song cuts, cut characters, etc. Then they tried to reverse course midway after they'd learned from both Mulan and TLM massively underperforming that audiences don't like their severe changing of films in a supposed "remake," but the die had already been cast at that point.

[Sotiris]

Zegler addresses the backlash.

“Honestly, I’m a duck,” she says today of criticism. “It rolls right off my back these days.” Her candour hasn’t been dented — this is a woman who clearly feels and cares deeply about the world. Zegler still thinks it’s important for actors to speak freely. “We just need to normalise our hearts’ not having boundaries,” she explains. “I think that there’s this idea that we as public figures can’t have thoughts or feelings because we are like paper dolls to a majority of the public.”

For the audacity of having opinions while being good at her job, she’s been branded “controversial” by tabloids. What keeps her grounded, despite all the noise? “My love for the work. I am the one who showed up and did my work every day. Nobody can ever take that away from me. I made lifelong friends on that job,” she says of her experience of Snow White. “That kind of family doesn’t get dissipated by online discourse.”

Every experience I’ve had so far has been such a wonderful lesson learned. I loved working on [Snow White], and I love that film. I’ve seen it a few times, and it [became] number one on streaming on Disney+, so I know that it’s celebrated. It was one of those experiences of sometimes negativity being louder than positivity. What I took away from it is just to really, really soak in when it feels good and understand that it’s possible when it feels bad. The beautiful thing about Evita for me – beyond all of the wonderful people I met and all of the wonderful work we’re doing – is that I never thought I would be a part of something so celebrated, because of the way that I’ve been conditioned to believe that I wouldn’t be.

Source: https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/artic ... ear-awards

[Lilly85]

I read somewhere that Gal Gadot wants to back as an Evil Queen for spinoff of sequel of SW la

[Disney's Divinity]

I could tell the Queen's "death" left an opening for a sequel (much like Magnifico being imprisoned at the end of Wish left an opening for possible sequels if the original did well). Gadot's Queen was my favorite thing about this, so of course I'd love it, but a sequel would just be burning money at this point. Would it even have value in streams?

[Sotiris]

Here's what she said exactly.

The Wonder Woman actress, 40, told Us Weekly exclusively that she’d “love” to reprise her role as the Evil Queen in a potential spinoff film seven months after the release of the fantasy musical. “I would love to do that. Yes,” Gadot said at the Women’s Guild Cedars-Sinai Snow Ball Gala, where she was honored with the Hollywood Icon Award, in Beverly Hills on Thursday. “Tell [Disney CEO] Bob [Iger]. Bob, I’ll do that.”

Source: https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainmen ... n-spinoff/

[Lilly85]

I could tell the Queen's "death" left an opening for a sequel (much like Magnifico being imprisoned at the end of Wish left an opening for possible sequels if the original did well). Gadot's Queen was my favorite thing about this, so of course I'd love it, but a sequel would just be burning money at this point. Would it even have value in streams?

Lot of ppl thought that shes also weakest part of this movie

[Lilly85]

Here's what she said exactly.

The Wonder Woman actress, 40, told Us Weekly exclusively that she’d “love” to reprise her role as the Evil Queen in a potential spinoff film seven months after the release of the fantasy musical. “I would love to do that. Yes,” Gadot said at the Women’s Guild Cedars-Sinai Snow Ball Gala, where she was honored with the Hollywood Icon Award, in Beverly Hills on Thursday. “Tell [Disney CEO] Bob [Iger]. Bob, I’ll do that.”

Source: https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainmen ... n-spinoff/

I don't think they will make her wish come true

[Disney's Divinity]

The Dwarfs, Bandits, and Zegler were probably the weakest parts for me. Well, it was more a hodgepodge of strengths and weaknesses with all the cast members really, but Gadot is really the only part that drove me to buy the film on 4K and see it in theaters. Without her, I probably would've passed. I do wish they had had a dub singer for the song though.

[Sotiris]

Snow White is the only Dinsey-branded film that's made it into Variety's The Worst Movies of 2025.

While not exactly awful, Disney’s “live-action” retelling of the studio’s very first animated feature sucks all the wonder out of the “property” (the Mouse House seems to view everything in terms of IP these days, doesn’t it?), reducing what felt like pure magic to a block of cinematic Velveeta. Whose idea were CG dwarfs? I take no beef with the casting of Rachel Zegler, beyond the total blandness she brings to the role, while Gal Gadot’s camp energy would have been better served in a film with more personality. Odd that the bloated running time couldn’t find room for “Someday My Prince Will Come.” You tell me: Between this and a public-domain-exploiting prank like “Screamboat,” which is a worse desecration of the Disney legacy?

Source: https://variety.com/lists/worst-movies- ... now-white/

[Thumper_93]

Snow White is the only Dinsey-branded film that's made it into Variety's The Worst Movies of 2025.

While not exactly awful, Disney’s “live-action” retelling of the studio’s very first animated feature sucks all the wonder out of the “property” (the Mouse House seems to view everything in terms of IP these days, doesn’t it?), reducing what felt like pure magic to a block of cinematic Velveeta. Whose idea were CG dwarfs? I take no beef with the casting of Rachel Zegler, beyond the total blandness she brings to the role, while Gal Gadot’s camp energy would have been better served in a film with more personality. Odd that the bloated running time couldn’t find room for “Someday My Prince Will Come.” You tell me: Between this and a public-domain-exploiting prank like “Screamboat,” which is a worse desecration of the Disney legacy?

Source: https://variety.com/lists/worst-movies- ... now-white/

Gal Gadot wouldn't have made a better job in any case. She's not a great actress and her role was a whole mess. Can't understand how people is still taking bad about Rachel's job when the biggest flop of the movie was the queen. At least she knows how to sign and you don't want to cut your ears like with the Queen's song...

[Sotiris]

In my opinion, Zegler gave a much worse performance than Gadot in the film. And because she was the protagonist, its negative impact on the overall movie was much more significant than Gadot's who was a secondary character.

[PatchofBlue]

I think anything hodgepodge about Zegler's performance was directly spawned from the film itself being confused and atonal. Gadot's performance was much more actively grating for me, but again, I think she was doing exactly what the film was asking her to do.

And on a sidenote, I consider myself a fairly active media consumer, at least as far as film is concerned, and it's a good year if I have seen 25 movies from any given year by the end of that calendar. So being able to give a sizeable "10 Best Films of the year" --or "10 WORST"--in confidence has always felt bizarre. Like, where do people find the time for that?

I'm typically in the theater at least once a month, but movies still tend to trickle onto my screens over the span of a few years. I don't know, I feel like by now I could do a pretty substantive TOP 10 of 2016 ...

[Disney's Divinity]

I think the disconnect with reviews is the inability for a lot of people to view anything separate from politics really. I admit it's very hard to take the commentary online towards Gadot seriously because it comes across as if it's not about her performance at all but because of her Israel connection on top of feeling like far left (as well as some apolitical types with an ax to grind) "revenge" ( ) for Zegler being hated and dogged by most conservatives. But tbh, Zegler was disliked by a sizeable number of people who aren't conservative, too, I'm sure, who find her personality itself off-putting--but that's too hard a pill to swallow, best to stick to an easy "narrative."

Naturally the far right could never be fair to Zegler either since they hate her politics, the racebend, changes to make SW less passive, etc. The truth is Gadot's performance is mostly fine, her only real problem is not being able to sing very well, which doesn't make her unique in modern Disney musicals (Mena Massoud, Stephanie Beatriz, Emma Watson, etc. Even Mandy Moore and Cravalho don't sing that well to me, but they're not completely lacking). Zegler's performance was alright, it was more all the things they were trying to tie up into one character thanks to the story being revamped that made her limitations as an actor stand out. It would take a strong actor to pull all of it off, and Zegler is an average actor (not a terrible actor, just average like many remake stars). I wouldn't necessarily put the lack of "I'm Wishing" and "SDMPWC" at her doorstep, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn if they had intended to include those songs in some form alongside "Waiting On a Wish," but she flat-out refused to perform them. Who knows, just saying I would not be surprised at all if that could spill out down the line.