Snow White producer Marc Platt’s son Jonah is blaming the film’s lead, Rachel Zegler, for posting her ‘personal politics’ on social media, which he believes hurt the Disney movie’s box office performance. Zegler, 23, who plays the titular princess, extended support for Palestinian people after sharing the first trailer of the film in August 2023. “And always remember, free Palestine,” she wrote in a tweet that garnered over 14.5 million views.
This prompted Disney executives to immediately get in touch with Zegler’s team, and Marc Platt reportedly even boarded a flight to New York to speak with Zegler in person. Now, his son, Jonah Platt, 38, who is known for her roles in Netflix’s Uncoupled, defended his father in a since-deleted Instagram comment when a user called Marc Platt “creepy” for reprimanding a young actor.
“You really want to do this? Yeah, my dad, the producer of enormous piece of Disney IP with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, had to leave his family to fly across the country to reprimand his 20 year old employee 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,” wrote Jonah.
there’s no way pic.twitter.com/SZyjgZa6yf
— alex (@zeglerapp) March 26, 2025
He continued, “This is called adult responsibility and accountability. And her actions clearly hurt the film’s box office. Free speech does not mean you’re allowed to say whatever you want in your private employment without repercussions. Tens of thousands of people worked on that film, and she hijacked the conversation for her immature desires at the risk of all the colleagues and crew and blue-collar workers who depend on that movie to be successful. Narcissism is not something to be coddled or encouraged.”
Zegler’s political stance affected her co-star Gal Gadot, who reportedly began receiving death threats. Gadot has been an advocate for Israel and has also served as a combat fitness instructor in the Israeli military for two years. Months following Zegler’s post, Gadot also extended her support for Israel on Instagram, “I stand with Israel, you should too. The world cannot sit on the fence when these horrific acts of terror are happening!”
Snow White is now playing in theatres near you.
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