Even Snow White has bills to pay. Acting the role of princess isn’t always like the fantasyland equipped with singing birds and somehow cute rats that Disney might have you believe. Even the seemingly picture-perfect gigs in Hollywood are a lot a lot like too many jobs these days: a lot of work and not enough pay. It’s hard to, as they say, whistle while you work if you’re getting paid pennies, or not getting paid anything for something that will be streamed instead of broadcast.
Rachel Zegler, the star of Disney's upcoming live-action Snow White, recently unveiled as much, as she picketed with other striking writers and actors in a viral video. “If I’m gonna stand there 18 hours in a dress of an iconic Disney princess, I deserve to be paid for every hour that it’s streamed online,” Zegler said. She’s just one of the many stars who have touched on issues of fair pay this summer, increasingly doing so with the aid of the internet.
