no blonde rapunzel?!

[SuperBzz]

People keep focusing on hair colors when the main problem is Disney not bringing new cultural stories.

[winifredeghrudje]

I’m more pissed at people who keep supporting these soulless remakes. It’s embarrassing lion king remake made over a 1 billion dollars 🤦🏽‍♀️

[montygreen]

I wouldn’t mind so much if they actually made it a “rapunzel from a different culture” story, and not “insert an actress into this other culture for representation”. If they made the Rapunzel movie take place in India, I think it could be a really cool concept.

[VasalyaMoodley]

People forget the real crime here which is Disney's utter lack of creativity. Seeing princesses and stories from all corners of the world as a kid was magical to me

[mandybrown]

I stopped caring by now. Disney can make whatever live action remake they want, it's not like I'm going to watch it 😅

[panakinskywalker]

Actually rapunzel doesn't even have blonde hair in tangled. It just gets this golden colour from the flower magic, without it it's brown. Both of her parents even have brown hair.

[nani]

I agree, but I don't know anything about Desi, Chinice, African legends, and fairly tails. So instead of race switching European fairytales (not Rapunzel, necessarily), isn't it better to adopt their native fairytales. Like how Moana or Mulan did.

[wenkachan]

Lazy representation... they are literally saying we don't deserve new stories.

[emmakuru]

Thanks for a reminder of how multicultural fairy tales actually are. People in the Western world hear about the Grimm Brothers so many times, it’s easy to forget how these stories have life in multiple cultures. Rapunzel is one. Cinderella is another.

[cacaumassipanoficial]

In the case of Disney's Rapunzel, her hair is supposed to be golden because of the flower that gave her powers, her real hair is actually brown and the contrast is part of the story, so they would have to change the color of the flower or give a glow effect in her hair only when she uses her power, which could work although it could also affect the impact of the scene where her hair is cut, the problem is the rest of the movie, as long as it's good the hair color can be different.

[ninaloveray]

People just wanted to see the animated version come to life. Disneys Rapunzel has been blonde and brunette with fair skin for almost 15 years. Let’s leave her that way. And make a new original Indian and South Asian Princess.

[shimiiisan]

Why don’t they just make new disney princesses who are POC ???

[Obsidian_Enigma]

Blonde hair representation? Jet me off into the cosmos with no spacesuit, wtf

[tunamoon_a]

I find that the casting isn’t a race problem for me, it’s just that diversity doesn’t mean making white characters brown, it means making new brown characters. They could cast Avantika in a role as a new princess, instead of casting her as one that’s been already made

[kimberlyterasaki]

Also Disney Rapunzel was a natural brunette.

[bumble]

Honestly, i think it's gross of disney to change the race an existing character, and call that inclusive. True inclusivity would be creating meaningful stories with people of color and their culture at the center of the film (encanto, coco, moana, and soul were all great examples of this) What Disney has recently done with their inclusivity seems like the easy way out and bare minimum at best.

[TheeMilkMaid]

But why do they have to keep making live action films. Can't they just make more stories from all over the world. There is so many princesses tales out there or make there own.

[ashlismith]

I'm so sick of Disney ALWAYS trying to change stuff. Leave it alone 🤬

[maryastutzman]

The main problem isn’t that they might be a different race or hair color. It’s that Disney’s taking old, classic characters and purposely changing them instead of giving them new creative personalized stories to their culture, perhaps.

[patrickonaleash]

honestly if disney does decide to make a live action Rapunzel with brown /poc representation i would love if they actually make efforts like change the premise to fit in to the story and casting more like the various iterations seen from various countries. instead of shoving a token brown character paired with a male white prince in our face just for clicks and money because OF COURSE we know we're not gonna get a proper brown representative anytime soon with their own original story just picks and scraps of already made stories which we anyways know Disney's not gonna put any effort in