“She’s not going to be saved by the prince and she’s not going to be dreaming about true love,” she said. “She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be and the leader that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave and true.”
That's a different story. That's not Snow White.
Go make the story you want to make.
"Fairly innocuous comments, you might think, about an 86-year-old movie that probably needs an update for modern times."
It's Snow White. The story doesn't need 'an update for modern times'. Tell the story everyone knows and loves, Snow White. About a young woman with WHITE skin who is rescued by a prince.
Why do they keep changing stories people know?