The red carpet is usually filled with reporters and photographers who interview and film the stars when it's a gala premiere in Hollywood. But no external journalists will be allowed to attend when "Snow White" opens at the venerable El Capitan Theatre, writes Variety, which reports that Disney wants to avoid further controversies surrounding its major production.
The lead actors Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot have both been involved in controversies recently and stand on opposite sides when it comes to the war in the Middle East.
The outspoken Palestine activist Zegler, who is mostly known from the film "West Side Story", has also previously gone out and criticized the original "Snow White" film from 1937, calling it old-fashioned. And, among other things, said that the prince in the story "basically stalks Snow White".
Israeli Gal Gadot, on the other hand, has previously avoided political statements, but has recently expressed her great concern about increased anti-Semitism in the USA due to the war in the Middle East.
I never thought we in the USA would see people who don't condemn Hamas but praise, justify, and call for a massacre of Jews, she has said, among other things.
The new version of "Snow White" has also been criticized by actor Peter Dinklage for Disney making a completely new version of the fairy tale, but keeping the depiction of Snow White's helpers as short-statured. In the new film, they are computer-animated.
"Snow White" will have its Swedish cinema premiere on March 19.
