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Meghan McCain Calls on Trolls to ‘Ease Up’ on Rachel Zegler Over ‘Snow White’ Controversy: ‘The Girl Is 23’
The political commentator asks her followers to give the young celeb a chance to learn that entertainers "should just entertain" The post Meghan McCain Calls on Trolls to ‘Ease Up’ on Rachel Zegler Over ‘Snow White’ Controversy: ‘The Girl Is 23’ appeared first on TheWrap.
Meghan McCain called for the “trolls” who have virtually blasted Rachel Zegler in the midst of her ongoing “Snow White”-drama to “ease up,” as she says she too remembers a time when she said “dumb s—t” as a 23-year-old.
“This may surprise some of you given that I vociferously disagree with every public statement Rachel Zegler has said – but the girl is 23,” McCain said in an X post on Thursday. “I did and said a lot of dumb s–t when I was 23. Can we maybe ease up and let her learn the lesson that entertainers should just entertain?”
McCain’s remarks are in response to the backlash Zegler’s received over her past politically-driven comments, as well as her criticisms of the original, animated Disney film.
On Tuesday, a report from Variety detailed behind-the-scenes dramas in the lead-up to the release of Disney’s live-action remake of “Snow White,” which hit theaters Friday. Executive Editor Tatiana Siegel in part wrote that the studio paid for additional security for Israeli actress Gal Gadot (who herself has vocally supported her home country in the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict), hired a social media specialist to work with Zegler and flew Marc Platt to the younger actress to address her political comments.
In August of last year, three days after taking the stage at Disney’s D23 convention in support of “Snow White,” Zegler — previously best-known for Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” and “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” entry to the “Hunger Games” franchise — thanked her fans on X for their continued support before adding in a second comment: “And always remember, free Palestine.”
The actress, now 23, continued to share her social and political views, including writing “F—k Donald Trump” on her personal accounts. Tensions between Disney and Zegler also sparked up in 2022 when the actress referred to the film’s animated original “Snow White” as an outdated tale that features a prince who “literally stalks” its title princess.
McCain is the latest person to come forward with thoughts on Zegler’s drama. On Wednesday, Marc Platt’s son Jonah slammed the actress in a since-deleted Instagram comment, saying she “hijacked” the film’s press run.
“Free speech does not mean you’re allowed to say whatever you want in your private employment without repercussions,” Jonah told an Instagram user, who questioned his father’s decision to fly out to reprimand Zegler. “Tens of thousands of people worked on that film, and she hijacked the conversation for her own immature desires at the risk of all the colleagues and crew and blue collar workers who depend on that movie to be successful. Narcissism is not something to be coddled or encouraged … This is called adult responsibility and accountability. And her actions clearly hurt the film’s box office.”
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