Pedro Pascal slammed after supporting Rachel Zegler amid ‘Snow White’ backlash

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backlash that Rachel Zegler has received. On Sunday, the “Last of Us” star, 49, posted a photo of Zegler, 23, on his Instagram Stories, tagging her and adding one simple word: “icon.” Several fans on X, formerly Twitter, slammed the “Mandalorian” actor. “Lol.

Icon? No, how bout ‘fired,’ how bout ‘blacklisted,’ how bout failure, moron, imbecile. Call her what she is, not what your deluded Hollywood echo chamber wishes she was,” one person wrote.

Another person commented, “Pedro’s mouth is gonna tank the Fantastic Four,” referring to how Pascal will star in an upcoming reboot of the superhero franchise.

Not all the comments were negative, however, as another person posted, “Everyone who supports Rachel is an icon. She is on the right side of it all,” while another remarked, “Just when you thought Pedro Pascal couldn’t get any hotter.” Zegler first sparked controversy in 2022, with comments she made about the original 1937 “Snow White” film.“The original cartoon came out in 1937 and very evidently so,” she said in an interview with “Extra” at the 2022 D23 Expo. “There’s a big focus on her love story with the guy who literally stalks her.