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JAN MOIR: I saw the new 'woke' Snow White in a 450-seat cinema - with a shocking amount of people. It's not hard to understand why it's bombing at the box office
JAN MOIR reviews the new Snow White film, a £215million live action remake of the original Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.
For a start, the Prince has been replaced by a drip called Jonathan (Andrew Burnap), who is a kind of Gary Lineker-lite-meets-Robin Hood character; the sort of man who'd get sympathy period pains and drink a craft beer on a first date. In interviews to promote Snow White she managed to create a one-woman anti-buzz, talking of how she 'hated' the original, found it 'scary', only watched it once and was disappointed with the sexual politics and lack of feminist ambition on show. Speaking alongside co-star Gal Gadot – the Israeli actress who took on the cape-swirling role of the Evil Queen – Zegler said her Snow White was 'not going to be saved by the Prince' and is not someone who's 'going to be dreaming about true love'.
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