Financial analyst and pop culture critic Valliant Renegade shared his speculation that The Walt Disney Company rigged the People’s Choice Awards in order to ensure Rachel Zegler won the award for Best Action Star to boost her profile heading into their Snow White film.
Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Photo Credit: Murray Close
Zegler won the People’s Choice Award for Best Action Movie Star of the Year besting The Marvels’ Brie Larson, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’s Chris Pratt, Heart of Stone’s Gal Gadot, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’s Jason Momoa, John Wick: Chapter 4’s Keanu Reeves, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’s Tom Cruise, and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ Viola Davis.
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Valliant Renegade questioned Zegler’s win saying, “Let’s not forget that Hollywood studios engage in heavy social manipulation. They all do. We’ve talked about this many times. All these Hollywood Studios hire very expensive PR and advertising marketing firms.”
He asserted, “Their job is to basically raise the social media specter of whatever these Studios need them to do. And Disney seems to be one of the most prolific users of this system
He later continued, “So how then does Rachel Zegler winning this award benefit Disney? Let’s look at the list one more time. Disney has two distinct entries in this list of eight: Brie Larson from The Marvels and Chris Pratt from Guardians 3. The problem with those films is that they’ve already come and gone and Brie Larson and Chris Pratt don’t have anything on the radar for Disney coming down the road.”
“‘But Valiant, The Hunger Games already released. It’s been out for three months now. What does that matter?’ Well, it’s not about The Hunger Games like I said. It’s about Rachel Zegler,” he shared. “And Rachel Zegler is, primarily, the biggest investment in a major capital expenditure by the Walt Disney Company that’s due out next year.”
Rachel Zegler as Snow White in Snow White (2025), Walt Disney Studios
He then posited, “If you were the Walt Disney Company and you had already spent 200 some odd million dollars filming Snow White, a live-action remake of it starring Rachel Zegler, who then stuck her foot in her mouth and effectively sank the production to the point that Disney had to pull it off of the release shelf and move it back one entire year for massive reshoots because they had to fix the things that audiences immediately and reflexively gagged at. Well, you might just want to raise the specter and the public sentiment of its principal character Rachel Zegler playing Snow White as much as you possibly could.”
“So as notorious as the People’s Choice Awards are for being able to be manipulated by say bot farms and very expensive Madison Avenue PR firms, well, who would stand to benefit from having Rachel Zegler inexplicably win this award? Well, that could be Disney.”
“Well we can’t be sure, but something tells me that a certain rat might be involved and in that sense, you know, we just we don’t know. We’re speculating. We’re theorizing but it could be,” Valliant Renegade said.
Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird and Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Photo Credit: Murray Close
What do you make of this theory? Do you think The Walt Disney Company was involved in Rachel Zegler’s Best Action Star win at the People’s Choice Awards?
