Sexually Fluid Actor Cast As Male Lead In ‘Snow White’ Remake
The upcoming, live-action adaptation of Disney’s beloved classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has found its leading man, and we are squealing with delight!
According to The Hollywood Reporter, 30-year-old actor Andrew Burnap, who won a Tony Award last year for his performance in Mario Lopez’s critically-acclaimed Broadway drama The Inheritance, is set to star in Marc Webb’s retelling of the 1937 animated classic. However, he will not play Prince Charming nor the Huntsman.
Burnap is reportedly playing a new, original male lead created specifically for the film and joins a high-wattage cast that includes Rachel Zegler as Snow White and Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen.
Zegler, who recently won a Golden Globe for her debut film performance as Maria Vasquez in Steven Speilberg’s 2021 film adaptation of West Side Story, congratulated Burnap on Twitter when he shared the news that he was cast alongside her in Snow White.
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— rachel zegler (she/her/hers) (@rachelzegler) January 12, 2022
Burnap has built a career doing stage and film work and has also been open about his fluid sexuality. He cites The Inheritance, which tells the story of gay New Yorkers in the generations following the onset of the AIDS epidemic and is one of the most awarded queer plays in recent history, as helping him become more open about that part of himself.
In a 2020 interview with Glamour UK, Burnap says,
“On a serious note, it’s opened me up to my rather fluid sexuality. I think it’s really given me permission to understand a side of myself that I haven’t given voice to or stepped fully into in my life before this play, which is a really beautiful thing. I very much, before this play, identified as a straight man. I think I’ve benefited from the privilege of being assumed as straight my entire life, but I don’t identify that way.
“It’s been interesting to have people assume that I am that, and that’s been difficult for me because I am in a place in my life where I feel like I’m in a space of expansion and stepping into the full version of myself, and certainly through my own sexuality. I’m sort of falling into the category of curiosity, questioning, and trying to understand my full self, and that’s a really vulnerable, scary but also beautiful place to be.”
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Production on Snow White is expected to begin this spring.
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