"This may surprise some of you given that I vociferously disagree with every public statement Rachel Zegler has said – but the girl is 23," McCain said in an X post on Thursday. "I did and said a lot of dumb s–t when I was 23.

Following the ethnicity-oriented criticism, Zegler set tongues wagging when she hit out at movie bosses who worked on the original 1937 cartoon. Interviewed on the red carpet of Disney's D23 Expo in 2022, she also took aim at the way the animated flick has aged.

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