‘West Side Story’ Actress Rachel Zegler Led Online Bullying of Gina Carano
Rachel Zegler, the star of Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story, has a troubling history of online targeted harassment, her past tweets show.
That includes an episode last year in which she encouraged her followers to attack “Mandalorian” actress Gina Carano for what she claimed was transphobic behavior. It was only one of many instances in which Zegler attacked others via Twitter, which her followers gleefully did as well.
This past June, Disney announced Zegler would portray Snow White in the live-action reboot of the animated classic. After the announcement of her casting, Zegler (who is part-Columbian) took to Twitter to proclaim “Yes, I am Snow White. No, I am not bleaching my skin for the role.” She later deleted the tweet, after some questioned why she was inserting race into the conversation.
This is hardly the first time Zegler has stirred controversy on Twitter. In recent years, she has accused Jeremy Renner of being transphobic and racist, and also attacked “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling for being “transphobic,” and encouraged fans to report her to Twitter to get her kicked off the platform. She also seemed to encourage violence towards people she considered transphobic.
Twitter user Dataracer117 has documented Zegler’s history of troublesome tweets and bullying behavior on social media.
Zegler’s bullying of Carano began in September of last year, after the actress answered trolls who demanded she list her pronouns. Carano responded by putting the words “Boop/Bop/Beep,” which angered leftist Twitter activists.
The move seemed to trigger Zegler, who ranted on Twitter about pronouns without mentioning Carano by name. She did, however, mention in one tweet that she loved Pedro Pascal, leaving no doubt who she is mad at. Her followers joined in, tweeting insults to Carano.
Here is Rachel Zegler sending her stan army to bully Gina Carano. pic.twitter.com/dVI9tJ2h7Z
— Dataracer (@Dataracer117) June 22, 2021
In response to her tweet, Zegler’s fans unleashed a flurry of hateful tweets at Carano. Zegler never discouraged the hundreds of harassing tweets.
In 2019, after rumors circulated online that Hawkeye actor Jeremy Renner was transphobic (without proof), Zegler unleashed her Twitter fury.
The tweets remind many of the recent Chrissy Teigen controversy, when her past tweets bullying a teenage girl resurfaced. Teigen lost several endorsement deals and a significant number of fans over the matter.
Neither Disney nor Zegler have responded to the controversy.
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