Live-Action Rapunzel Indian Fan Cast Controversy
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Live-Action Rapunzel Indian Fan Cast Controversy, also known as Live-Action Tangled Casting Rumors Controversy, refers to discussions and debates surrounding a prominent fan cast advocating for an Indian actress to play the Disney princess Rapunzel in a possible live-action version of the film. In April 2024, some internet users criticized the idea of American actress Avantika Vandanapu playing a race-swapped Rapunzel, citing the Princess's supposedly Germanic ancestry in the original fairytale. Other users pushed back against such complaints, citing the fact that no live-action Rapunzel film had been announced and that detractors were getting about an entirely theoretical fan-casting opinion.
Background
The fairy tale Rapunzel appeared in a collection of stories by the Brothers Grimm in 1812, drawing inspiration from the French fairy tale Persinette from 1698, which was itself inspired by the 1634 Italian fairy tale Petrosinella. All three stories fall under the Aarne-Thompson type 3 "Maiden in the Tower" classification.
However, the earliest known reference to a female character helping a male lover climb using her hair as a ladder appears in the Persian epic poem Shahnemeh, as a love story between Rudāba and Zāl. The poems are dated between 977 and 1010 CE.[9]
Discussions about Disney making a live-action remake of the 2010 animated film Tangled first made the rounds in June 2023, with American actress Maitreyi Ramakrishnan saying that her dream role is to play Rapunzel, as seen in a June 9th post on X[1] by the account @FilmUpdates (seen below, left). The post gathered over 120,000 likes in a year.
On August 4th, 2023, the X account @PopCrave announced that a live-action remake of Tangled was reportedly in the works at Disney, with X[2] user @ULTRAGLOSS fan casting British actress Charithra Chandran and Avan Jogia and Rapunzel and Flynn Rider, gathering over 254,000 likes in 10 months (seen below, right).
Developments
On March 31st, 2024, TikToker[3] @star.eyes4you posted a news article discussing the possibility that American actress Avantika Vandanapu and actor Acan Jogia may play Rapunzel and Flynn Rider in a live-action Tangled remake. The TikToker expressed their disappointment in the casting, writing in their caption, "IM SO SAD MY DREAMS ARE JUST DREAMS 😭😭😭 (pls let me audition) Avantika and Milo will absolutely slay anyway." The post gathered over 4 million plays and 300,000 likes in a week (seen below, left).
In early April 2024, TikToker @44.explosive_farts posted a video captioned, "me pretending that the little girl in me isn't so upset by the live action repunzel casting." The post was reposted to X[4] on April 7th with the caption, "Somebody call the wambulance," gathering over 26,000 likes in two days (repost shown below, right).
@star.eyes4you IM SO SAD MY DREAMS ARE JUST DREAMS 😭😭😭 (pls let me audition) Avantika and Milo will absolutely slay anyway
@jamesypilled leave her be man. #yes #swag #what #avantika #rapunzel #tangled ♬ original sound – jamesy :p
On April 4th, 2024, TikToker[7] @editsfxi posted an edit fan casting Avantika as Rapunzel and Milo Manheim as Flynn Ryder, gathering over 2 million views and 230,000 likes in five days (seen below, left). Also on April 4th, TikToker[8] @dylansknipe888 criticized the fan cast, gathering over 2 million plays and 400,000 likes in five days (seen below, right).
@editsfxi petition for avantika and milo to be our rapunzel and flynn 🫡 #avantika #milomanheim #tangled #rapunzel #flynnrider #edit #disney #fyp ♬ original sound – lola
@dylansknipe888
On April 7th, X[5] user @heunvrse posted a thread advocating for an Indian person to be cast in a live-action Rapunzel film, gathering over 120,000 likes in two years (seen below, left). On April 8th, X[6] user @theoceanblooms quoted the aforementioned TikTok, writing, "this is crazy because I just had to google and not only has there been no casting announcement for live action Rapunzel I’m not even totally sure if a live action Rapunzel is in development," and gathering over 75,000 likes in a day (seen below, right).
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[1] X – FilmUpdates
[2] X – ULTRAGLOSS
[3] TikTok – star.eyes4you
[4] X – silllyfunnygirl
[6] X – theoceanblooms
[8] TikTok – dylansknipe888
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![Carl Benjamin @Sargon_of_Akkad • Apr 6 I suppose you'd be fine with Ryan Gosling playing the lead in a Hollywood adaptation of the life of Guru Nanak? 130 168 5.2K ılı 86K Rafael Sargi @Raffisargis Apr 6 There are literally thousands of indian tales, yet they couldn't pick any of them to create an authentic story? But yeah, let's take what whites have created, and erase them, shall we? 3 271 Adam W. Patterson 190 Ill 2.5K @OfficialAdamWP ⚫ Apr 6 ☐ 1 The apparent theme of "Let's try to have as few white girls as possible" seems a bit racist to me. 4 27 126 Ill 2.2K meme bastard @mask_bastard • Apr 6 who cares about rapunzel might as well cast Dylan Mulvaney 1 27 Σ <] 60 Il 1.6K ☐ 1 Highway @HighwayFromSaro Apr 6 I think from now on that any Indian character, historical or based on Indian cultural tales, should be played by anything but Indian actors, and we'll see how okay you guys are with that. 2 27 27 ılı 900 @GPrime85 Apr 6 . George Alexopoulos All culture, including this, was stolen from from the Greeks anyway, stop complaining 18 1 10 674 Il 13K ☐ 1](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/791/249/044.png "Live Action Rapunzel Fan Cast Controversy")
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