{"id":86853,"date":"2025-03-26T09:52:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=86853"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:52:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:52:54","slug":"disney-reportedly-hired-extra-security-for-gal-gadot-after-rachel-zeglers-free-palestine-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/disney-reportedly-hired-extra-security-for-gal-gadot-after-rachel-zeglers-free-palestine-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney reportedly hired extra security for Gal Gadot after Rachel Zegler\u2019s \u2018Free Palestine\u2019 tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By GRACE GILSON<\/p>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014 When Rachel Zegler tweeted \u201cfree palestine\u201d last year after sharing the trailer for her latest movie, the live-action \u201cSnow White,\u201d millions of people saw it \u2014 more than 9 million, as of this week.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_86854\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ziegler_Gadot.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86854\" class=\"wp-image-86854 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ziegler_Gadot-300x167.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ziegler_Gadot-300x167.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ziegler_Gadot-1024x569.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ziegler_Gadot-768x427.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ziegler_Gadot-1536x853.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ziegler_Gadot-2048x1138.webp 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/167;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86854\" class=\"wp-image-86854 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ziegler_Gadot-300x167.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ziegler_Gadot-300x167.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ziegler_Gadot-1024x569.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ziegler_Gadot-768x427.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ziegler_Gadot-1536x853.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ziegler_Gadot-2048x1138.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-86854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot pose at the D23 Expo in 2022. (Alberto E. Rodriguez\/Getty Images for Disney)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But until Tuesday, few knew the extent to which Zegler\u2019s one-line tweet caused a firestorm for Disney as well as her co-star, Israeli actress Gal Gadot.<\/p>\n<p>According to an article in Variety, the tweet caused the movie\u2019s Jewish producer, Marc Platt, to fly to New York to meet with Zegler face-to-face.<\/p>\n<p>It was far from Platt\u2019s first encounter with the issue. His wife is Julie Platt, the chair of the Jewish Federations of North America, which has raised hundreds of millions for Israel following Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7 attack, which launched the war in Gaza. (Their son is the actor Ben Platt.)<\/p>\n<p>The content of their conversation is unknown, but the tweet stayed up \u2014 and caused more fallout: Zegler\u2019s Israeli costar Gal Gadot received death threats, which led Disney to hire additional security for her, according to Variety.<\/p>\n<p>Months later, after last year\u2019s election, Zegler posted \u201cF\u2014 Donald Trump\u201d and wished that his supporters \u201cnever know peace.\u201d That triggered another conversation with Platt; Disney hired a social media advisor who would approve her posts until the movie\u2019s premiere this month.<\/p>\n<p>The controversies surrounding Zegler may be one reason Snow White opened last weekend to a box office of just $43 million domestically, which fell far short of expectations. The film had a production budget of $270 million and a marketing budget of $100 million.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Disney%20reportedly%20hired%20extra%20security%20for%20Gal%20Gadot%20after%20Rachel%20Zegler%E2%80%99s%20%E2%80%98Free%20Palestine%E2%80%99%20tweet\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":86854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139],"tags":[14516,4493,8790,3029,8788,14515],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86855,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86853\/revisions\/86855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}