Out on the promotional trailer for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes [read our review here], actress Rachel Zegler has been speaking about her role as Snow White in Disney’s upcoming – albeit recently-delayed – live-action remake.
Zegler teases in a new interview with Collider’s Perri Nemiroff that we’ll see Snow White take on a leadership position in the film, stating: “Something that kind of emerged was this leader within her that I was so happy that the writers wanted her to be, and the fact that it’s born out of her upbringing, but she finds it within herself throughout the course of the film and throughout the people that love her in the film and show their love for her. Marc Webb and I kind of called it her third eye-opening.”
She adds, “There’s a couple of scenes in there where she’s speaking like someone who’s been alive for much longer than she has, and that’s something that I relate to, something that I’ve been told all my life. So, getting to bring that to a character that I love so deeply and that I’ve spent so much time with now it’s a really amazing thing as an actor and as a performer, and I can’t wait for people to get to see it.”
Marc Webb will helm Snow White from a script co-written by Greta Gerwig and Erin Cressida Wilson. The film is set to star Zegler opposite Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen with songs from the La La Land team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
Snow White will be released in theaters on March 21st, 2025.
