Snow White and Gal Gadot auditioned for the role of the Evil Queen

Gal Gadot will interpret Evil queen in Disney’s upcoming live action featuring Rachel Zegler based on the classics Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The film directed by Mark Webb will be a continuation of the new projects of Disney princesses in the flesh. But Gal Gadot said that she got the role of the villain not for undeniable merit, but for participating in the character’s audition stages.

Snow White and Gal Gadot auditioned for the role of the Evil Queen

Although today Gal Gadot is best known as a performer amazing woman and has preceded her fame for her role as the Evil Queen in snow White did listening and not in vain. The actress is busy with the press tour Heart of stone, a new action movie available to stream on Netflix, has revealed some backstory on the work done for Snow White. Disney’s upcoming live action will revisit some aspects of the classic cartoon, starting with the seven dwarfs who are apparently omitted from the movie and replaced with other characters. To the microphones GQrevealed that she auditioned for the role of the Evil Queen for a very specific reason:

Yes, I will play the Evil Queen. It was the first time in a long time that I auditioned for a project. They had to make sure I could sing because it’s a musical. So I worked on the song for a month and then I auditioned and we shot it. I got the role and it was a lot of fun. And the shooting was amazing because I had never worked on a musical and it was like nothing I had ever done. It’s so delightful and enjoyable and I really could make it big and theatrical. I’m very happy with the film, I can’t wait for the public to see it.

Therefore, it seems that Gal Gadot auditioned for the role of the Evil Queen to showcase her singing abilities, as it is a musical adaptation of Snow White. However, the role of the protagonist went to Rachel Zegleran actress who has already demonstrated her singing abilities in West Side Story.