Thanks for sharing that,
Farerb! I've been watching interviews from D23 the last few days and Rachel Zegler revealed a lot of details about the film in them. Here are some more things revealed by her and Gal Gadot:
• It seems they're doing something similar to what they did in the
Cinderella remake with Cinderella's mother's words being very important to her and a guidance on how to live her life, but with Snow White's father this time.
You said you were bringing a modern edge to it on stage, what do you mean by that?
RACHEL ZEGLER: I just mean that it’s no longer 1937 and we absolutely wrote a Snow White that is…
GAL GADOT: She's not gonna be saved by the prince.
RACHEL ZEGLER: Yeah, she's not gonna be saved by the prince and she's not gonna be dreaming about true love. She's dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be and the leader that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, fear, brave and true. And so, it's just a really incredible story for I think young people everywhere to see themselves in.
Source: https://youtu.be/2RVg3yetTE4?t=102
• There'll be brand new characters in this version. I'm not sure if Rachel Zegler refers to the magical creatures or completely new ones. I think Snow White will probably meet different people from the kingdom, and she'll learn how much they're suffering under the Queen's reign and that will motivate her to fight for them and reclaim the throne. That also happened in
MIrror Mirror. I think they've taken inspiration from it and
Snow White & the Huntsman for some things. The prince being like a Robin Hood type character, for example, was in Kristen Stewart's movie.
It's amazing, we've got brand new music, brand new costumes, brand new characters, which is so exciting for me because I think the new characters add so much to the movie.
Source: https://youtu.be/Yw38HhW2oAE?t=16
“In 1937, the cartoon [Snow White and the Seven Dwarves] was so focused on her finding true love, and it’s not even in her mind at all in this film,” Zegler (West Side Story), 21, tells us Friday at Disney’s D23 Expo in Anaheim, Calif., where she was joined by co-star Gal Gadot (watch above).
“She’s so focused in becoming the leader that her father tells her that she can be. And she’s really trying to find the courage to stand up to the Evil Queen [Gadot] and how to find her own agency and rule a kingdom. And she meets so many incredible people along the way. And maybe she finds love. Maybe she finds friendship. But what’s really important is that she finds her own voice.”
Source: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/the ... 44076.html
• "Whistle While You Work" will be in the movie. I thought it wouldn't, but it's likely the lyrics have been changed.
What was the most challenging and also fun part about playing Snow White?
The entire sequence of "Whistle While You Work". And when you see the film you'll know why.
I'll be like "that one time Rachel told me about that".
Yeah, she WAS whistling and she WAS working.
Source: https://youtu.be/XQeurScqh-I?t=134
• She teases there'll be musical collaborations with an up-and-coming singer-songwriter:
I get to sing incredible new music by Pasek and Paul. There are some incredible collaborations on that music too, which I'm excited about but I don't think I can say, but it has to do with one of my favorite up-and-coming singer-songwriters.
Source: https://youtu.be/ZWY9Kj54Dnk?t=85
• Gal Gadot also talked a bit about creating her character:
"I wanted to make sure that we keep her delightful and delicious, and we understand what makes her tick. Then the evilness is interesting, and not just flat," she says.
"For me," adds Gadot, "it was making sure the Queen is not just evil for the sake of being evil. There is a complexity. Between the two characters, it's like a mother-daughter relationship in a weird way. It's what happens to a woman when she feels like she's not relevant anymore, what can come out of her."
Source: https://people.com/movies/gal-gadot-on- ... exclusive/
• She also talked about playing the old hag and confirmed she sings and dances in the movie:
Gadot: "We did not see the clip, so I still haven't seen anything. But when I was in makeup, just like she [Rachel Zegler], we got to work with such an amazing crew and it was the best it could ever be.I must say for me the transition for the Old Hag was incredible because it was all real prosthetics."
Zegler: "You were in the chair for like four hours."
Gadot: "Four hours. And changing the voice and everything. I feel so lucky that I got to play something that is so far from what I know and what I'm used to. And I super super enjoyed every second of it."
Source: https://thedirect.com/article/gal-gadot ... queen-role
"It was amazing. It was an amazing experience. First of all, I am grateful for the opportunity to be able to play the first iconic villain ever. And to tell her story and to get into her shoes, I'm honored to do that. And it was great.
She's so much different than anything that I have ever played before. And it was great to explore all of those differences, and to sing, and to dance. It was just delicious. And I enjoyed every moment with it."
Source: https://thedirect.com/article/gal-gadot ... queen-role
• Also, apparently, the Queen will wear black lipstick:
While her character's look has yet to be revealed, Gadot teases that she managed to spook other on set when dressed in her "heavy as hell" costume.
"Just to be able to be that character and feel what it makes other people feel," she explains. "Usually I make people talk to me, open and comfortable. With this one, I truly felt people were intimidated by me."
"Yeah. It's very intimidating," agrees Zegler, 21. "And it was also the black lipstick, it was the nails, it was the lashes."
"Everything was very, not aggressive, but it was very intimidating. But to be that character just feels great, because you feel like it's effective in the story," adds Gadot, who says it was "enjoyable" to play a fairy tale villain and "go bigger, to be more theatrical, to speak through your body, and to do all those things."
Are these people for real? First they claim Prince Phillip violated Aurora with a non-consensual kiss and now they claim Snow White's prince stalked her? Are they too simple-minded to understand context or are they pretending to be? There's no way a reasonable person could watch the film and view the prince's courtship as stalking.
