Rachel Zegler had no idea she was auditioning for Snow White that led to years-long drama

Every fairytale has a beginning.Rachel Zegler talked about her audition process for the controversial “Snow White” remake during her appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday.The 23-year-old actress revealed that she was cast in the Disney film before the world saw her performance in 2021’s “West Side Story” directed by Steven Spielberg.“I actually got a really glowing recommendation from Steven Spielberg to Marc Webb, who directed ‘Snow White,'” Zegler shared on the late-night ABC show.“And I also got a text from Steven kind of alluding to the fact that I had gotten the part before I found out,” she said.

“I wished him a Happy Father’s Day and he texted me a bunch of apple emojis as a response.”Zegler joked that Spielberg, 78, “was giving Taylor Swift easter eggs” about her casting in “Snow White.”The Golden Globe winner’s audition for the film was done in extreme secrecy.“With all these Disney things, it’s like Marvel, Star Wars, Disney live-actions, you have no idea what you’re reading,” she explained.“It’ll say like, ‘Untitled Disney live-action film,’ and the sides will have different names.

It’ll say like, ‘Amber and Jeff.’ So I was reading for ‘Amber’ in ‘untitled Disney live-action.'”“And it wasn’t until I had that first read with Marc Webb on Zoom that he had let it slip that I was actually conversing with Dopey.And then in the back of my head I went, ‘Okay,'” Zegler added.Regarding doing live action alongside CGI characters like the seven dwarfs, Zegler called it “the hardest thing I’ve ever done.”“It’s amazingly rewarding when you see it and you complete it to say this is the thing that we did,” she told Kimmel, 57.

“But you basically do three different versions of every scene.You do one with humans in the space, so you’re having an emotional connection with somebody.

And then you do it with puppets, in our case, for Dopey and Grumpy and these iconic characte...