Gal Gadot on Her Dual Transformation in Disney’s Snow White

By Alison Stateman

The opportunity to play the Evil Queen in the new live-action musical Disney’s Snow White was—like the poison apple that tempted the first Disney Princess—too delicious to pass up for Gal Gadot.

“Sometimes I pinch myself and I can’t believe I got to do all these amazing and iconic things with the character that I play. It was just a lot of fun,” Gadot shared in an exclusive interview for the Spring 2025 digital cover story of Disney twenty-three.

Glancing at a behind-the-scenes photo, Gadot says, “I am watching myself in the mirror, which we do not see [here]. I’m wearing one of the beautiful dresses Sandy Powell designed. I remember every time I went to the mirror to say the line, ‘Magic mirror on the wall.’ There’s something so powerful and humbling about it. There’s something so great about playing a character that is bigger than life.”

The striking actress was equally enthused about her character’s transformation into the old hag in the highly anticipated reimagining of the 1937 animated classic. “The next image is me dressed as the old hag when I’m getting the poison apple ready to go. It was so much fun to be able to completely transform and be completely unrecognizable and as far as one could be from the Evil Queen,” she says with a smile.

Commenting on an informal shot from production, Gadot beams, “It’s me and [director] Marc Webb and [producer] Marc Platt taking a selfie. It’s so great when you get to work with people who love what they get to do and are simply such wonderful people. I got very lucky with the Marcs. I really enjoyed working with them.”

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