‘Snow White' Star Rachel Zegler Lands First Film Role After Disney Dud

Forbes

30-04-2025

Rachel Zegler at the 97th Oscars held at the Dolby Theatre on March 2, 2025 in Hollywood, ... More California. (Photo by Gilbert Flores/Penske Media via Getty Images)
Snow White star Rachel Zegler, who has been at the center of the film's controversies for the past three-plus years, has her next movie role lined up.
Snow White, of course, has been a box office disaster for Disney, having earned an underwhelming $42.2 million from 4,200 North American theaters in its opening weekend in March and dropping 66% in business in its second Friday to Sunday frame.
Over the weekend, Snow White tumbled out of the domestic box office top 10 after dropping its theater count to 610 venues, down more from 1,650 theaters the week before.
As of Monday, Snow White has earned nearly $85.8 million in North American theaters and $114.4 million internationally for a worldwide box office tally of $200.2 million to date against a $269.4 million production budget before prints and advertising expenses.
Despite the film's financial woes, it hasn't prevented Zegler from landing her first screen role following the live-action Snow White remake. According to Variety, Zegler will star opposite Oscar winner Marisa Tomei in the comedy drama She Gets It From Me.
Per Variety, the film — which will be directed by Julia von Heinz — is based on a true story about a woman named Nicky (Zegler), 'whose engagement celebration turns into a search for her pill-popping, ex-punk rocker birth mother, Charlotte (Tomei).'
There's no word when She Gets It From Me will start production.
A week prior to the release of Snow White in theaters, Variety reported that Zegler was cast in the lead role of Argentine political leader Eva Perón in Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic musical Evita, which will stage in London's West End. Previews for the Zegler-led Evita begin in June and the musical opens in July.
SEGOVIA, SPAIN - MARCH 12: Rachel Zegler at the European event for Disney's "Snow White" at Alcazar ... More de Segovia on March 12, 2025 in Segovia, Spain. (Photo byfor Disney)
Rachel Zegler, of course, made headlines in 2022 for referring to the prince in the original animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as a stalker in a 2022 red carpet interview with Extra TV, where she also said the 'cartoon' was dated.
In addition, the actor also made waves with a post on X in August of 2024, where she followed up a post thanking Snow White fans for watching the film's trailer with another post that read, 'and always remember, free Palestine.' Then, in November, Zegler created social media posts calling out newly re-elected President Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters, for which she later apologized (via Variety).
Following a report on all the controversies that brewed during the production of Snow White's production, Jonah Platt, the son of Snow White producer Marc Platt, took Zegler's social media actions to task in a scathing Instagram post.
Snow White, starring Rachel Zegler in the title role and Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen, is still playing in theaters.