{"id":1965824,"date":"2025-08-17T21:58:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T21:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1965824"},"modified":"2025-08-17T21:58:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T21:58:48","slug":"gal-gadot-speaks-out-about-snow-white-box-office-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/gal-gadot-speaks-out-about-snow-white-box-office-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Gal Gadot speaks out about &#8216;Snow White&#8217; box office failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/03\/19\/USAT\/82539625007-20250319-vpc-protestors-at-gal-gadot-walk-of-fame-celebration-thumb-00-00-00-24-still-003.jpg?crop=1919,1079,x0,y0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">\n<p>Gal Gadot Walk of Fame celebration crashed by protesters<\/p>\n<p>Gal Gadot&#8217;s Hollywood Walk of Fame celebration took place just a few hours after Israel launched air strikes targeting Hamas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2024\/12\/29\/gal-gadot-pregnancy-brain-blood-clot\/77301649007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2024\/12\/29\/gal-gadot-pregnancy-brain-blood-clot\/77301649007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gal Gadot<\/a> is weighing in on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2025\/03\/31\/snow-white-2025-box-office\/82737507007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2025\/03\/31\/snow-white-2025-box-office\/82737507007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the box office failure of &#8220;Snow White.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Wonder Woman&#8221; star, 40, discussed the financial disappointment of the Disney live-action remake <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Betar_USA\/status\/1956548550986547358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">during a recent appearance<\/a> on &#8220;The A Talks,&#8221; an Israeli TV show, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/gal-gadot-snow-white-box-office-pressure-hollywood-israel-1236491257\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to Variety<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/gal-gadot-on-snow-white-flopping-rachel-zegler-1236346094\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gadot, who was born in Israel and was a combat fitness instructor in the Israel Defense Forces during her mandatory two years of service, theorized the movie&#8217;s performance was affected by pressure on celebrities to speak out against her home country. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/06\/24\/rachel-zegler-snow-white-backlash-palestine\/84330481007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rachel Zegler<\/a>, who played Snow White in the film opposite Gadot&#8217;s Evil Queen, was outspoken in her support for Palestine ahead of the movie&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s pressure on celebrities to speak against Israel,&#8221; said Gadot, speaking in Hebrew, according to a translation published by Variety. &#8220;And, you know, it happened. I can always explain and try to give context about what&#8217;s happening here. And I always do that. But in the end, people make their own decisions. And I was disappointed that the movie was incredibly affected by all of that and that it didn&#8217;t do well at the box office. But that&#8217;s how it goes. You win some, you lose some.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">&#8216;Snow White&#8217; controversy: <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2025\/03\/27\/rachel-zegler-snow-white-marc-platt-jonah\/82686271007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Producer&#8217;s son slams Rachel Zegler for hurting film with &#8216;politics&#8217;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gadot elaborated on her answer in an Instagram Story on Sunday, Aug. 17, writing, &#8220;When the film came out, I felt that those who are against Israel criticized me in a very personal, almost visceral way. They saw me first and foremost as an Israeli, not as an actress. That&#8217;s the perspective I spoke from when I answered the question.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But she added, &#8220;Of course, the film didn&#8217;t fail solely because of external pressures. There are many factors that determine why a film succeeds or fails, and success is never guaranteed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite speculation of bad blood between the two &#8220;Snow White&#8221; actresses, though, Gadot said in the &#8220;A Talks&#8221; interview that she enjoyed working with Zegler. &#8220;We laughed and we talked, we had fun,&#8221; she said, per The Hollywood Reporter. Gadot added that she was &#8220;positive the movie was going to be a huge hit&#8221; before its release.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8220;Snow White&#8221; underperformed at the box office in March, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/release\/rl3856302849\/?sortDir=asc\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/release\/rl3856302849\/?sortDir=asc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">earning $87 million in North America<\/a>. By comparison, Disney&#8217;s live-action &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2023\/05\/22\/the-little-mermaid-movie-review-halle-bailey-disney-remake\/70239548007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Little Mermaid<\/a>&#8221; remake <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt5971474\/?ref_=bo_se_r_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">made $298 million<\/a> at the domestic box office, and the &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2025\/05\/23\/lilo-and-stitch-2025-movie-biggest-changes\/83778214007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/a>&#8221; remake <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt11655566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">took in $421 million domestically<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After the film&#8217;s poor performance, Jonah Platt, son of &#8220;Snow White&#8221; producer Marc Platt, publicly blamed Zegler, who <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rachelzegler\/status\/1823146134769893534\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted &#8220;free Palestine&#8221; on X<\/a> in August 2024 after thanking fans for watching the movie&#8217;s trailer.<\/p>\n<p>In a since-deleted Instagram comment, Platt slammed Zegler &#8220;for dragging her personal politics into the middle of promoting the movie for which she signed a multi-million dollar contract to get paid and do publicity for.&#8221; Platt added that the actress&#8217; &#8220;actions clearly hurt the film&#8217;s box office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zegler never directly responded to Platt&#8217;s claims. But in a June <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/i-d.co\/article\/rachel-zegler-evita-interview-snow-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">i-D magazine<\/a> profile, the &#8220;West Side Story&#8221; star defended voicing support for Palestine and argued that &#8220;a platform becomes a responsibility, and that responsibility is ours to use as we please.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zegler noted &#8220;there are obviously things that are at stake by being outspoken,&#8221; but &#8220;nothing is worth innocent lives,&#8221; adding, &#8220;My heart doesn&#8217;t have a fence around it, and if that is considered my downfall? There are worse things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gadot, meanwhile, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/features\/gal-gadot-snow-white-wonder-woman-walk-of-fame-1236339602\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told Variety<\/a> in March that her &#8220;conscience is clean&#8221; about advocating for hostages of Hamas and speaking out in support of Israel. &#8220;I am praying for better days for all,&#8221; she told the outlet at the time. &#8220;I want everybody to have good life and prosperity, and the ability to raise their children in a safe environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Contributing: KiMi Robinson, USA TODAY<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usatoday.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gal Gadot Walk of Fame celebration crashed by protesters Gal Gadot&#8217;s Hollywood Walk of Fame celebration took place just a few hours after Israel launched air strikes targeting Hamas. 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