Angry Donald Trump supporters are calling for outspoken actress Rachel Zegler to beryllium fired from the upcoming unrecorded enactment remake of “Snow White” — oregon astatine the precise least, for radical to boycott the film.
Screenshots of the 23-year-old star’s anti-Trump Instagram rant person been making the rounds connected societal media this week, prompting critics to impulse Disney to tin its rising star.
“I find myself speechless successful the midst of this,” Zegler began a lengthy post-election connection sharing her disappointment successful the “sheer magnitude of radical who showed up for this antheral who threatens our democracy.”
Zegler lamented a “deep, heavy sickness successful this country” and expressed anticipation that “Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself ne'er cognize peace.”
She aboriginal said she was alert that radical connected X were aggravated implicit her comments and urged users to halt utilizing the platform, which is owned by Trump surrogate and donor Elon Musk.
“F–k Donald Trump,” her connection appears to end, based connected screenshots of the since-expired Stories.
While Zegler yet issued an apology, her critics were — and proceed to beryllium — upset.
“@rachelzegler is an untalented, hateful portion of quality debris,” wrote one X idiosyncratic who work Zegler’s posts.
Others aimed their frustration astatine Disney and vowed to boycott the March 2025 merchandise of “Snow White.”
“Not taking my kids to spot this trash aft the connection you enactment out,” declared different X user, urging Disney to “do thing astir this.”
“I ne'er thought that we’d scope a constituent wherever a literal Disney princess would purposefully usage words similar ‘f–k’ successful a nationalist statement, but present we are,” said another.
Right-wing MAGA pundit Megyn Kelly called for Zegler to beryllium fired from the project.
I played Snow White successful my High School play many, galore years ago. Her Disney Princess paper needs to beryllium revoked with her acting a fool! 😂 I don’t spot different erstwhile Disney princesses enactment this way. She’s intelligibly precise aggravated with an overwhelming dose of DTS.
— Hill Country Girl (@HillCountryGirl) November 14, 2024
Zegler posted connected Instagram Thursday nighttime that she’s atrocious for letting her emotions get the champion of her, portion defending her close to person an opinion.
“Hatred and choler person caused america to determination further and further distant from bid and understanding,” she wrote. “I americium atrocious I contributed to the antagonistic discourse.”
Many X users had antecedently expressed displeasure astir the upcoming remake, which breaks with contented and uses a mostly minority cast, led by Zegler, who’s Latina.
The Walt Disney Company could not instantly beryllium reached for remark Thursday regarding the reactions to Zegler’s posts.