Rentaholic2 said: "Kad said: "Zegler was widely praised for West Side Story- and I thought she was excellent in it. She even managed to be the one consistently positively reviewed aspect of the doomed-from-the-start Snow White film. She doesn't have a huge acting resume at this point and she's still very early career, but it's a career that seems pretty darn promising so far. This production sounds like it has the potential to elevate her career substantially."
Wasn't she also well-reviewed in that hunger games thing, and didn't it do pretty well financially?
I see a lot of parallels to Lea Michele in that she seems poised to silence a lot of her haters and reclaim her narrative by giving a performance for the ages and tearing through a beast of a score in a very satisfying way. (not saying the source of the hate or the fairness of it is at all the same between the two)."
a lot of the social media hatred and assumptions made about Lea pre date any discussion about work place behaviour and comes from either fans of other glee cast members who were mad Lea was the female lead of the show and not their favourite and so automatically hated her, people who were incapable of separating her from the character she played , and people who just hated her for her looks or other random reasons.
I do see parallels with Rachel in some of the misdirected hatred ( and again, this is quite separate to past work place allegations about Lea although, as the likes of Kevin McHale and others have said, even some of that has been blown out of proportion on social media to what actually happened, mostly by those previously mentioned) aimed at her for either a character she's played that people dont like or think she shouldnt have played, their perceptions of who they think she is vs who she actially is and that the media see her as easy click bait and so they have pushed a narrative about her that brings easy clicks, and thus we get tabloids blaming Rachel for creative decisions Jamie Lloyd has made re the balcony in Evita.
Rachel is also about the age Lea was when she hit big and the tabloid media and some people in general seem to love to pick a young female performer to direct their ire at , see also Anne Hathaway when she was younger, but these things have gotten worse since social media became ubiquitous and rumours get spread around so easily without people stopping to separate the reality from what people with agendas want others to think.
there were false rumours circling of Rachel causing problems in rehearsals when other people saw her happily interacting with her colleagues. people will happily jump on a narrative if it suits their bias.
