Rachel Zegler Noticeably Excludes Costar Gal Gadot From Snow White Tributes Amid Feud Rumors

On Thursday and Friday, the actress — who performs the titular character within the Disney live-action remake — shared heartfelt Instagram posts, by which she mirrored on the “life-changing expertise” starring within the movie, and gave a shoutout to her Snow White “household.”

Nevertheless, it did not go unnoticed by followers that Zegler didn’t share a single photograph of Gadot — who performed the Evil Queen — nor even point out her costar.

In Thursday’s Instagram put up, Zegler, 23, shared a carousel of over a dozen behind-the-scenes images from the movie’s London set as she opened up about portraying Disney princess within the movie, which was launched on March 21.

“this film was a life-changing expertise that has held about 4 years of my profession. the rising up you do from the age of twenty (when i used to be forged) to twenty-three (the age i’m now) can’t be precisely described, but they exist right here on movie perpetually,” she started in her caption. “i grew to become an actual grownup throughout the course of this movie — realized exhausting classes, did exhausting issues, laughed, cried, turned 21, lived throughout the ocean from my household, made new buddies, and fully fell in love with this group of individuals i started working with for 3 magical summers in London.”

“we had the best crew on this planet on this film. it can’t be overstated. this photograph dump doesn’t even dig into the enjoyable, the magic, and the love that was shared all through this course of. nevertheless it’s a begin,” she added. “‘snow white’ is now in theaters. it is an enormous chunk of my coronary heart and it’s now yours. i hope you get pleasure from and really feel the magic we have been fortunate sufficient to dwell every day. and keep in mind, you’re the one who can fill the world with sunshine. ❤️🍎❄️.”

Zegler posted one other Snow White Instagram tribute on Friday, by which she expressed her gratitude towards 20 members of the forged and crew, together with her costars, Andrew Burnap and Dujonna Reward, and the movie’s director, Marc Webb.

“all of the love on this planet for marc webb, our beautiful director, who introduced a lot pleasure and pleasure to this set every day with the intention of constructing a ‘snow white’ for his daughter’s era,” she stated of Webb.

Within the caption of the put up, which featured one other carousel of behind-the-scenes images, Zegler wrote, “it takes a village to deliver tales like ‘snow white’ to the large display and that i liked this one so very a lot. right here’s somewhat glimpse into this household i got here to look after deeply. catch all of them in motion each in entrance of and behind the digicam, in theaters now. ❤️🍎❄️🗡️🪞💎⛏️.”

The West Facet Story star went on to share a second put up on Friday, by which she gave a shoutout to her staff, honoring her publicist, stylist, and glam squad.

“press within the metropolis i name residence will at all times be fairly darn cool — thanks nyc for all of the snow white love :’),” Zegler captioned a sequence of images from the New York Metropolis cease on her press tour. “and now that this tour has come to a detailed i can say an enormous thanks to my TEAM who traveled with me all around the globe as a result of a) they’re my emotional help and b) they make me really feel stunning in entrance of 1,000,000 flashing cameras!”

She then shared particular messages for her staff.

Regardless of mentioning a big handful of people that labored on the movie in her three posts, Gadot was not talked about as soon as.

This comes amid rumors of a feud between Zegler and Gadot, which reportedly started on the set of Snow White.

A supply advised PEOPLE there’s “stress” between the actresses, saying they’ve “nothing in frequent.”

“On prime of that, their political beliefs differ, including to the stress,” the insider added.

It has been reported that Zegler and Gadot clashed relating to their contrasting views on the Israel-Hamas struggle, based on TMZ. Zegler is an outspoken supporter of Palestine, whereas Gadot has continued to publicly help her native Israel. (On the actress’ Hollywood Stroll of Fame ceremony earlier this week, a battle broke out between pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protesters, per TMZ.)

Regardless of this, Zegler and Gadot posed collectively for group images on the Snow White premiere in Los Angeles, which was scaled again and didn’t characteristic any press. Nevertheless, they didn’t take part in interviews or different press appearances collectively.

Along with the rumored stress between Zegler and Gadot, the movie was met with a number of controversies, together with backlash over Zegler’s casting over the truth that she is a Latina within the lead function.

There has additionally been criticism over Zegler’s previous remarks in regards to the unique movie and her opinions on the 1937 traditional’s outdated themes, like when she advised Further TV in 2022 that the animated movie centered an excessive amount of on a love story with “a man who actually stalks her.”

In a separate Leisure Weekly interview, Zegler admitted she had solely watched the unique film as soon as as a baby as a result of she discovered it scary and by no means revisited it till she was forged.

The live-action remake was additionally met with criticism over its portrayal of Little Folks for the roles of the Seven Dwarfs. As an alternative of casting actors who’re Little Folks, the studio used computer-generated characters.

Following the backlash, together with from Peter Dinklage, Disney launched an announcement: “To keep away from reinforcing stereotypes from the unique animated movie, we’re taking a unique strategy with these seven characters and have been consulting with members of the dwarfism neighborhood.”

Snow White is in theaters now.