(OPINION) A conservative Christian family visited the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, earlier this month, likely hoping to create some good memories.
The parents spent hundreds of dollars on dinner at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge and a meet-and-greet with the Evil Queen—also known as Queen Grimhilde—from the 1937 classic film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
When the time came for their close encounter at the lodge’s Artist Point, the family discovered that the actor playing the queen was neither the fairest of them all nor one among the fairer sex, reported Park Place’s Jonas Campbell.
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The father told That Park Place, “We’ve had other meet-and-greets with other Villains; they are the best character experiences we’ve ever had. So we had high hopes for the Evil Queen leading up.”
“So we all walked over towards the Evil Queen area, and while my kids and wife were interacting with the character, I was doing some video and took a few pictures from about 10 feet away, then handed my iPhone over to the cast member to take some pics for me so I could get in the picture,” continued the father.
“It was kind of loud inside, so I couldn’t really hear what the character was saying until I got face to face [typical conversation distance of a few feet], and then it hit me that the Evil Queen, without a doubt, had a man’s voice.”
According to the father, in addition to speaking in a male-presenting voice disparate in kind and tone from that of the filmic feminine antagonist, the drag queen towered above his family without the need for any sort of platform.
That Park Place highlighted various videos online in which the same actor is seen reprising the role of the Evil Queen.
