Snow White Has The Dwarfs Help Her Clean Their Home In The Live-Action Disney Remake, And I Wish I Were Kidding When I Say That Some People Have Called It A “Tragedy”

It all started when Rachel Zegler was cast as the titular character, with the 23-year-old actor of Colombian and Polish descent. 

Disappointingly, the star immediately faced racist backlash from people who argued that the princess should be played by a white actor. 

At the time, Rachel responded by sharing a selection of childhood photos of herself dressed up as Disney princesses — including Snow White — and wrote: “I hope every child knows they can be a princess no matter what.”

But she continued to be targeted, with the criticism ramping up a gear when Rachel addressed some aspects of the original 1937 animated movie that haven’t aged particularly well.

“We absolutely wrote a Snow White that...she’s not going to be saved by the prince, and she’s not going to be dreaming about true love,” Rachel went on to tell Variety. “She’s going to be dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be, and that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave and true.”

Then, in December of that same year, Rachel admitted that she had only watched Snow White once as a child because it “terrified” her. 

“I watched it for the first time in probably 16, 17 years when I was doing this film,” Rachel added to Entertainment Weekly at the time.

All of this led to Rachel being unfairly vilified by dedicated Disney fans, with some even accusing her of “shaming” people for liking the original movie. 

Harrison Ford and Robert Pattinson were both used as examples, and more recently, fans drew parallels between Rachel’s comments about Snow White and Dakota Johnson’s Madame Web press tour, as well as Jacob Elordi’s remarks about his early Kissing Booth fame. 

But the trolls haven't relented, and even flooded Rachel's old YouTube videos with nasty comments. 

And by proxy, it seems that some are determined to find fault with her upcoming movie, too, which is now due for release in March 2025. 

And fans weren’t happy with what they saw in the footage, which showed Rachel in character as Snow White as she prepared to get the seven dwarfs’ messy home cleaned up. 

Upon seeing the mess, Snow White wonders why their mom doesn’t keep the house clean and tidy before exclaiming: “Maybe they have no mother!”

“I know, we will clean the house and surprise them, then maybe they’ll let me stay,” she adds. 

Pointing each dwarf in the right direction, she says: “Now you wash the dishes, you tidy up the room, you clean those cobwebs, and he’ll use the broom.”

And this was enough to anger some people, with many reacting to the clip to share their outrage at Snow White getting the dwarfs to help clean their home rather than doing it for them.

“In the original, Snow White just cleans the house and cooks a meal. In 2024, we can't have that, so she just makes the dwarves clean after they already spent a day in the mines,” a similarly popular tweet adds. 

Another goes so far as to call the change a “tragedy,” with the disappointed Disney fan writing: “Snow White was led to the house because she needed a place to stay. But the reason she cleaned the house was because she thought orphaned children lived there, and felt bad they didn't have a mother. So she would clean the house and surprise them. To take this out and have the dwarfs clean their own house, with Snow White not even helping is a tragedy. It deprives her of the gentleness and caring aspect of her character.”

This tweet has been liked 11,000 times, and somebody theorized in the replies: “Maybe it's supposed to be a inversion where snow white is evil and the queen is good,” earning hundreds of likes. 

“At this point, we are just rooting for the queen,” another user echoed, while one more claimed: “Nothing about her says ‘Snow White’. Nothing.”

Neither Rachel nor Disney have acknowledged this latest wave of backlash, and something tells me that we better brace ourselves for the online discourse when Snow White finally gets released.