Because of her Colombian heritage, Zegler faced aggressive pushback from conservative circles, who thought the title role of Snow White should be played by a white woman. The “Y2K” star said the experience was “really confusing,” considering she also faced backlash for playing Maria in 2021’s “West Side Story” because her father was white.
“I was told I wasn’t enough of one thing for ‘West Side Story’ and too much of another for ‘Snow White,’” Zegler said.
“I grew up proud of being Colombian,” she later added. “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,…
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