Rachel Zegler Feared for Her Security in Public Amid ‘Snow White’ Backlash

Rachel Zegler simply hit the massive 2-3 this week — and whereas she’s wanting ahead to a brand new yr of life, she notes age 22 was brutal for her … and an enormous purpose appears to be ‘Snow White.’

The actress posted some telling messages to her Instagram Story Thursday evening — which present her posing in a pair totally different attire (with the highest of her head cropped out) and prolonged captions connected that contact on how tough this previous yr has been for her.

She writes, “I hope 23 holds so much much less hatred, so much much less being afraid for my security in public, and much more understanding for rising up.”

Whereas Rachel ended the yr on a excessive together with her ‘Starvation Video games’ flick — she’d hit lots of bumps alongside the way in which all through 2023 … and far of that needed to do together with her work within the upcoming ‘Snow White’ live-action remake, which had her below a magnifying glass.

A bunch of outdated press feedback she’d made — relationship again to 2022 — got here again to chew her … the place lots of people felt she was crapping on the story of ‘SW’ and sounding snobby in discussing it … whereas additionally promising her model was going to be a completely feminist reboot.

Even exterior of her ‘Snow White’ controversy — Zegler ruffled feathers for plenty of different causes … together with feedback she made through the strikes final yr, the place she passionately spoke on the necessity for actors to get a good wage. Some felt she got here throughout as entitled.

Past that, she caught some flak even earlier in 2023 throughout her press run for ‘Shazam 2’ — when she stated she principally took the job ‘trigger she wanted a gig … not as a result of she was passionate concerning the work or enthusiastic about her character, a regular PC/PR factor to say.

Everybody was well-aware that Rachel was polarizing and that she spoke her thoughts — even when it, at occasions, got here again to chew her within the ass … however now, we’re studying how closely all that hate she bought weighed on her. Looks like it was far more severe than anybody realized.

Keep in mind, RZ is tremendous younger and pretty inexperienced in Hollywood as the most recent breakout star. Whereas some may really feel she’s misstepped alongside the way in which — others really feel like she deserves grace.