Hollywood actor Rachel Zegler finally talks about the backlash she faced regarding Disney’s live-action reimagining of Snow White, due in theatres March 21. Speaking in a magazine interview, Zegler reflected on her previous statements surrounding the film adaptation and called the audience’s negative sentiments around it a reflection of their “passion” for the character and original 1937 animated Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, itself based on the darker Brothers Grimm German fairy tale.

“I interpret people’s feelings about this film as their passion for her,” she told the magazine, “and what an honour to be a part of something for which people feel so much passion. We’re not always going to have the same sentiments as those around us and all that we can do is give the best of ourselves.”