The continued narrative round Rachel Zegler and Disney’s live-action Snow White remake has been exhausting — and it exhibits zero indicators of letting up, too.
After the movie was launched earlier this month with a disappointing opening weekend field workplace take, Selection revealed a widely-derided report claiming that the movie’s troubles stemmed from Rachel’s vocal help for the Palestinian individuals, in addition to her opposition to present US President Donald Trump.
One of many revelations within the report is that the movie’s producer, Marc Platt, allegedly flew to New York Metropolis to demand that Rachel take down a pro-Palestinian publish on social media — and that she refused to take action.
The report ended up producing a groundswell of help for Rachel — which led to Marc’s son, podcaster and sometimes-actor Jonah Platt, to publish a since-deleted touch upon IG defending his father’s actions. “Yeah, my dad, the producer of huge piece of Disney IP with a whole lot of thousands and thousands of {dollars} on the road, needed to depart his household to to fly throughout the nation to reprimand his 20 yr outdated worker for dragging her private politics into the center of selling the film for which she signed a multi-million greenback contract to receives a commission and do publicity for,” he wrote. “That is referred to as grownup duty and accountability. And her actions clearly damage the movie’s field workplace.”
“Free speech doesn’t imply you’re allowed to say no matter you need in your non-public employment with out repercussions. Tens of hundreds of individuals labored on that movie and he or she hijacked the dialog for her personal immature wishes on the threat of all of the colleagues and crew and blue collar employees who rely upon that film to achieve success. Narcissism shouldn’t be one thing to be coddled or inspired.”
Let’s zero in on that final little bit of Jonah’s dumb-dumb quote for a second — as a result of that is the place Ariana DeBose is available in.
Ariana, as you most likely recall, received the Greatest Supporting Actress Oscar again in 2022 for her efficiency in West Aspect Story — which additionally starred Rachel. One thing else of notice: Earlier this yr, it was revealed that Ariana would not be starring in a West Finish manufacturing of Evita after contract negotiations allegedly fell aside — and final month, it was reported that Rachel had gotten the position as an alternative.
Nicely, final night time Ariana got here ahead with an (once more, since-deleted) IG publish explicitly quoting Jonah’s prior publish. “Narcissism shouldn’t be one thing to be coddled or inspired,” the publish learn.
Appears, uh, fairly coincidental, to say the least! What’s extra, individuals on-line have been not pleased, which prompted Ariana to take the publish down and subject a brand new assertion by way of her IG story.
“I publish quotes on a regular basis and thought this one was significant,” she wrote. “Will totally cop to the very fact I didn’t do any analysis on the place this quote got here from, nor did I do know of the connection till it was identified to me. I’ve no intention of inserting myself right into a information cycle. This isn’t the primary time I’ve posted about coping with narcissism and it most likely received’t be the final, however subsequent time I’ll be sure you make clear its origins first.”
