Dwarf actors are planning to protest outside Disney Studios against the Grooming Syndicate’s outrageous decision to use CGI dwarfs in what is supposed to be a live-action Snow White remake, the Standard reports.
Dwarf actress Ali Chapman said the remake is a “total travesty.” Her husband, who is also a dwarf, said, “We’ve been totally shut out but we’re not going down quietly. It’s hard enough in Hollywood. Everyone’s trying to make their dreams come true. When you’re a little person opportunities are few and far between. I was born to play Dopey.”
Who can blame them?
I certainly don’t.
From the beginning, I have said it is outrageous that dwarf actors were not cast as the seven dwarfs in this $300 million live-action remake. In a Hollywood culture that supposedly embraced DEI as though it would save them from drowning, how do you exclude dwarfs when everything is supposed to be about “feeling seen” and “inclusion?”
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