‘Woke’ Snow White star Rachel Zegler has been given a shock BBC role despite the brutal backlash to the Disney reboot. 

The actress, 23, who stars in the $270million remake of the 1937 classic has been beset by multiple controversies. 

However, despite recent drama it has now been revealed she is set to become the latest celebrity to read the CBeebies Bedtime Story. 

Rachel will read Never Mess with a Pirate Princess by Holly Ryan which is set to air on Friday March 28. 

In the episode, she explains: ‘We can all be powerful princesses. You don’t need a king or a queen as parents, or a beautiful white horse, or even a fancy castle to live in. 

‘To be a powerful princess you just need to be wonderful, brilliant you!’ 

‘Woke’ Snow White star Rachel Zegler has been given a shock BBC role despite the brutal backlash to the Disney reboot (pictured last week)

The actress, 23, who stars in the $270million remake of the 1937 classic has been beset by multiple controversies

Rachel follows in the footsteps of the likes of Kylie Minogue, Olivia Colman, Billie Eilish and Ryan Reynolds, who have also taken on the gig over the past few months. 

Snow White made just $3.5 million in previews and earned $43 million during its opening weekend.

That places the film well behind the performance of Disney’s Little Mermaid remake, which premiered in 2023 and made $95 million during its opening weekend.

Disney’s 2019 Dumbo remake made $2.6 million in previews and profited a total of $45 million on opening weekend.

However, Dumbo only required $170 million to make, compared to Snow White’s budget of more than $250 million, excluding marketing costs.

Despite the underperforming figures, Snow White’s preview numbers did rank higher than Disney’s Cinderella remake, which only grossed $2.3 million. 

However, Cinderella ended up pulling a Cinderella story with a surprising $91.8 million in its opening weekend.

If the empty theatres across the nation is any indicator of the film’s dismal debut, it’s certainly catching the eye of Rachel’s critics. 

However, despite recent backlash it has now been revealed she is set to become the latest celebrity to read the CBeebies Bedtime Story

Rachel will read Never Mess with a Pirate Princess by Holly Ryan which is set to air on Friday March 28

ScreensH๏τs began circulating on social media of theatre seating charts with only a few seats filled and pH๏τos of moviegoers surrounded by empty chairs. 

Some critics have even jokingly called for someone to start a GoFundMe to help the movie make up its production costs. 

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What’s not helping the film’s success is the controversies surrounding the film – from it being called too ‘woke’ to Rachel being blamed for death threats aimed at costar Gal Gadot, who is Israeli.  

Rachel’s pro-Palestine posts have been blamed for a spike in death threats directed at Gadot that grew so fierce Disney reportedly forked out for private security.

The actress made movie executives nervous after she wrote ‘and always remember, free Palestine’ after an X post last August in which she discussed the hype for the embattled fairytale film.

The comment allegedly caused a spike in death threats towards her 39-year-old co-star Gadot, who plays the Evil Queen, according to Variety.

The Hollywood journal has suggested Gadot came under so much fire from fans that Disney’s top brᴀss elected to hire security for the mother-of-four, who completed two years of mandatory Israel Defence Forces service as an instructor in her youth.

It’s the latest in a long line of controversies to tar the live-action remake of Disney’s classic, the first feature-length animation produced by the studio in 1937.