Little People Have Big Beef with “Snow White and the Huntsman”
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Stuart Wilson/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — The new film Snow White and the Huntsman is a new twist on the Snow White legend, and in the movie, as in its literary source material, Snow White is aided by seven dwarfs.
However, taking a cue from The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which used digital and other effects to make actors like Elijah Wood look like a four foot tall Hobbit, the filmmakers behind Huntsman have used non-little-person actors to play the dwarfs.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? star Bob Hoskins, Shaun of the Dead’s Nick Frost, and Deadwood’s Ian McShane are among the Hollywood stars playing the seven “dwarfs” instead of actual dwarfs, and this isn’t sitting well with some little performers, who were relegated to stand-in work.
A representative with the Little People of America tells TMZ, the movie industry should be actively casting little people, adding, “This means both casting people with dwarfism as characters that were specifically written to be played by little people…and other roles that would be open to people of short stature.”
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