It is, it has to be said, a strange way to promote an upcoming remake of a children’s classic – to wheel out an actress who boasts of having “hated” the original film, made by the same studio, and who disdains much of the story on which it’s based. And who does so seemingly on-message. Especially when the future of Disney, its very existence, is looking uncertain.
And as The Drinker and others have noted, the glib and joyless ‘strong female character’ trope now sounds much more hackneyed and cringeworthy than a tale in which unlikely friends are made and love is found, and in which a malevolent, magic-wielding queen is chased by dwarves and an entire forest of critters, before being crushed under a giant boulder, rightly, and then devoured by vultures.
She’s very attractive as long as she doesn’t talk.
Definitely not the “fairest of them all” though.
You have to wonder how disney uglied up the Queen in order to make Snow Beige look better.
It also goes well with disney+ putting their animated versions into the vault, never to be seen again, now that they have a new and improved live action version.