Truthfully your entire Peter Dinklage/Snow White fiasco from earlier this 12 months
The entire thing erupted from a quite gentle dialog on WTF with Marc Maron the place Dinklage was simply making an statement that, for all of Hollywood’s boast about attempting to be extra numerous, little folks are likely to nonetheless be solid as fantasy creatures or different varieties of demeaning roles and used the brand new Snow White film for instance. He did not actually sound mad about it, he did not go on a rant, he was merely pointing it out.
Right here is the interview it began from: http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1299-peter-dinklage. Does he actually sound mad to you?
And, actually, he is proper…little folks do nonetheless are typically solid as both the butt of the joke or as fantasy creatures. Perhaps much less so with the arrival of CGI but it surely’s uncommon to see somebody with dwarfism simply be solid as, oh, Greg from down the road. And 9 instances out of 10 if a bit of particular person is simply solid as an everyday man or gal they’re performed by, nicely, Peter Dinklage (See I Care A Lot for instance).
And even once they aren’t it may be distracting as a result of I am so used to seeing films make a giant deal about it; as an example, in Rocket Man, there is a scene the place Elton passes by a gaggle of buddies and one among them has dwarfism. And I am going to admit, after I noticed it, it was a bit of distracting to see nobody point out their peak. A pleasant change of tempo? Certain. Nonetheless kinda odd? Sure.
Nonetheless, that each one being mentioned, folks took his phrases out of context and thought he was indignant at Snow White. Somebody I do know who has dwarfism even assumed he was indignant as a result of they have been indignant about it. And it led to this ridiculous “Peter Dinklage vs. Snow White” factor that even Disney had to reply to and principally lie that they weren’t casting little folks in any respect! (One thing that ended up being unfaithful when Martin Klebba was lately solid)
And all this from simply him observing one thing.
