It’s the two hundred-million-pound movie that has been plagued by controversy from replacing dwarf actors with CGI and its lead star panning the original Disney cartoon for its ‘sexist’ romance plot.
And now woke Snow White has struck again as trigger warnings such as ‘A woman is deliberately poisoned’ and ‘a girl is surrounded by ominous trees’ have been issued for audiences.
The British Board of Film Classification has slapped a hefty list of disclaimers on the live-action Disney remake starring Rachel Zegler, 23, as Snow White and Gal Gadot, 39, as the Wicked Witch.
The $270million remake of the 1937 classic will debut this week but has been beset by multiple controversies including reimagining the Seven Dwarfs as a diverse group of ‘magical creatures’ of all heights, gender and race.
Less than a week before the film is released, MailOnline can reveal the bizarre trigger warnings issued by the BBFC.
Viewers are told: ‘A couple gently kiss and are teased about being in love, a character threatens to shove something up another’s backside during a comic exchange and skeletal remains lie on the floor of a dungeon.’
A warning that ‘Characters drink alcohol briefly at a party’ has also been issued and when it comes to violence it is established, ‘A man is shot in the chest with an arrow’.
There are also ‘brief sword fights’ and a ‘woman is deliberately poisoned’.
The two hundred-million-pound movie that has been plagued by controversy from replacing dwarf actors with CGI and its lead star panning the original Disney cartoon for its ‘sexist’ romance plot
Now woke Snow White has struck again as trigger warnings such as ‘A woman is deliberately poisoned’ and ‘a girl is surrounded by ominous trees’ have been issued for audiences
Meanwhile, a feud is also ongoing between the West Side Story actress and her co-star, Gal Gadot. Pictured: With Marc E. Platt at the film’s premier
The $270million remake of the 1937 classic will debut this week but has been beset by multiple controversies including reimagining the Seven Dwarfs as a diverse group of ‘magical creatures’ of all heights, gender and race
The new movie musical Wicked, adapted from the popular stage show starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, was hit with a similar level of trigger warnings including discrimination against a ‘green-skinned woman’ and persecuted ‘talking animals’.
The warning issued to viewers by the BBFC states: ‘A green-skinned woman is mocked, bullied and humiliated because of her skin colour.’
The writer Simon Evans mocked the decision.
He told the Mail: ‘Trigger warnings are ridiculous and counterproductive at the best of times, dampening excitement, destroying creative, dramatic tension and creating a muffled atmosphere appropriate to an HR seminar than a movie.
‘But with this one, they’ve really (Warning: Comment contains dangerous aquatic threat!) jumped the shark.’
Meanwhile, Ziegler who stars as Snow White previously revealed she refused to sing the beloved song Some Day My Prince Will Come from the 1937 classic, stating it was ‘weird’ that the movie focused on Snow White’s ‘love story with a guy who literally stalks her’.
‘We didn’t do that this time. I was scared of the original version. I think I watched it once and never picked it up again,’ Zegler told Variety in 2022.
Ziegler said her character is ‘not going to be saved by the prince. She’s not going to be dreaming about true love. She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be,’ when she spoke at the Disney expo last year.
Viewers are told: ‘A couple gently kiss and are teased about being in love, a character threatens to shove something up another’s backside during a comic exchange and skeletal remains lie on the floor of a dungeon’
Trigger warnings to the film also include ‘brief sword fights’ and a ‘woman is deliberately poisoned’
A warning that ‘Characters drink alcohol briefly at a party’ has also been issued and when it comes to violence it is established, ‘A man is shot in the chest with an arrow’
‘She’s dreaming about becoming the leader that her late father told her she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave and true,’ she later gushed to Variety as her co-star Gadot smiled beside her.
Zegler has also criticised David Hand’s 1937 original animated film as ‘extremely dated when it comes to the ideas of women being in roles of power’ and admitted she has only seen it once.
‘The original cartoon came out in 1937, and very evidently so,’ she told Extra TV in 2022.
‘There’s a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her. Weird. So we didn’t do that this time.
‘We have a different approach to what I’m sure a lot of people will assume is a love story just because we cast a guy in the movie.’ The ‘guy’ she is referring to, Andrew Burnap, plays a man named Jonathan.
‘All of Andrew’s scenes could get cut, who knows? It’s Hollywood, baby!’ Ziegler joked.
Meanwhile, a feud is also ongoing between the West Side Story actress and her co-star, Gal Gadot.
Sources have claimed the pair have ‘nothing in common’, citing their age gap – Ms Zegler is 23 and Ms Gadot is 39 – and differing political views.
Ziegler who stars as Snow White previously revealed she refused to sing the beloved song Some Day My Prince Will Come from the 1937 classic, stating it was ‘weird’
Ziegler further said that the movie focused on Snow White’s ‘love story with a guy who literally stalks her’
Zegler has also criticised David Hand’s 1937 original animated film as ‘extremely dated when it comes to the ideas of women being in roles of power’ and admitted she has only seen it once
The Wonder Woman star was also absent from the £155million film’s secret Spanish premiere last week.
According to People magazine, ‘Gal is a mother of four, while Rachel is in a completely different stage of life. On top of that, their political views differ, adding to the tension’. Israeli-born Ms Gadot, who served in the
IDF, has publicly supported the release of Israeli hostages, while Ms Zegler has used her platform to voice support for Palestine amid the conflict in Gaza. This divide has reportedly further fuelled their feud.
After a series of PR nightmares, Disney scaled back the Snow White premieres to host a ‘handful’ of tightly controlled events.
This was the case on Saturday, with only a select number of photographers invited to the Hollywood Premiere. And the only interviewers the cast faced were employed by Disney, such as Jodi Benson, who voiced Ariel in the studio’s 1989 animation The Little Mermaid.
At the screening Ms Zegler, who starred in the 2021 remake of West Side Story, briefly addressed the backlash around the film, which has been branded ‘woke’ for adapting the original storyline of Disney’s first feature-length movie, released in 1937.
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