Rachel Zegler addressed an Instagram commenter who questioned her casting as Snow White. 

Ahead of the March 21 release of Disney’s live-action reimagining of the 1937 animated classic, a commenter expressed disapproval on a reel posted by the studio showing Zegler, 23, singing while promoting the film in Spain. 

“NO thanks,” wrote the commenter, asking Disney why it was “difficult to cast a soprano” as Snow White. 

Zegler took to the comments reply section to issue a succinct response: “i am a soprano!” she wrote. Adding a heart and Snow White-inspired apple emoji, she added a suggestion that the commenter check out evidence of her vocal range: “west side story is now streaming on disney+!”

Steven Spielberg’s 2021 remake of West Side Story cast Zegler in her breakout Hollywood role as Maria. The movie’s part, as in the Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents stage musical, required an actress whose voice is in the soprano range. Zegler earned a Golden Globe Award for her performance. 

Snow White, from director Marc Webb, features new original songs by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. Earlier this month, Disney released a video featuring Zegler’s rendition of one of the movie’s tunes, “Waiting on a Wish.”

The live-action remake stars Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen and the voices and motion-capture performances of actors playing Snow White’s seven friends: Jeremy Swift as Doc, Martin Klebba as Grumpy, George Salazar as Happy, Andy Grotelueschen as Sleepy, Tituss Burgess as Bashful, Jason Kravits as Sneezy, and Andrew Barth Feldman as Dopey.

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Zegler faced online backlash in the wake of her casting as Snow White in 2021, and made headlines when she said in interviews that the movie would modernize the character.

In a February interview with Vogue Mexico, the Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes star said, “I interpret people’s feelings about this film as their passion for [the Snow White character] and what an honor to be a part of something that people are so passionate about.”

Fresh off voicing the lead character in last year’s animated musical Spellbound and her Broadway debut opposite Kit Connor in an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, Zegler will next play Eva Perón in a London revival of the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber 1978 musical Evita.

Snow White is in theaters March 21.