
Rachel Zegler is looking back at all the backlash she received over her casting in Disney’s live-action version of Snow White.
In a new interview, Zegler recalls receiving negativity when she was cast in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story.
“I was told I wasn’t enough of one thing for West Side Story and too much of another for Snow White,” she told Harper’s Bazaar UK. “It was a really confusing time to be in my early twenties and hearing that.”
She continued, “I grew up proud of being Colombian – eating the food, wearing the dresses, drinking the coffee, doing all the things that were so intrinsic to who I was as a kid and who I am as an adult – but I do think there’s an argument to be made that, in the public eye at least, when you’re two things, you’re simultaneously nothing. But I
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