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⌈ Secret Post #6734 ⌋

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[Warehouse 13]

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04. [OP warned for a graphic sex scene (but I don't think it's dub/noncon or anything)]

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[How I Met Your Mother]

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[Amanda Palmer]

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07. [SPOILERS for Doctor Who]

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09. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/transphobia/etc]

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I think you have wildly misunderstood what he was saying.

What was he saying? I tuned out that movie so hard, I missed that, too.

He was talking about hiw Disney shouldn't remake Snow Whote because it is an outdated backwards story with outdated backwards stereotypes. He has been pretty vocal about the stereotypes Little People face and how they only get called to play mythical things like dwarves and elves. Disney took his remarks to mean they shouldn't hire LP to play dwarves and said they made the change because of him. Cue everyone saying Dinklage screwed LP actors out of a job.

Personally, I don't think Disney ever had any serious intention of hiring real life actors who are little people. This was just an excuse to fall back on their favorite tool, CGI.

I agree. And stir up drama for the movie, aka free publicity!

Ah ha. Ta, that was succinct and clearly stated. :D

And a lot of little people are annoyed with him, because that's still work, and they view him as speaking on their behalf without bothering to see how they actually feel about it.

Bingo. It was also high profile work that came with a fat paycheck and residuals. It was the kind of work that leads to more work even though it likely would have flopped because the live action remakes don’t draw large enough audiences. For all his posturing, he only takes roles that are LP specific so there would have been seven rivals with name recognition if Disney didn’t use CGI. And since there were casting calls, I don’t believe for a minute that Disney always planned to use CGI. I also think PD was salty that he wasn’t chased to be in the film like he has been with several others since GOT ended.

I can get that a lot of non actor little people are pissed at the acting little people for feeling that way. They are selling the rest of their community out and making things harder by often perpetuating "midget" stereotypes and jokes as part of getting that fat paycheck. It be "work", but it ain't good work for everyone else. They get the paycheck, others catch their punchlines in every day life.

But he wasn't like making a statement to Disney. He was just talking on a podcast about his own opinions. People took it to him making grand statements like he was king of the little people and that he was pressuring Disney to not hire LP or something. He wasn't speaking on behalf of anyone but himself, people just took it and ran with it.

They should have hired short actors who aren't dwarves. Like Seth Green and Patton Oswalt, and then hired a really tall Snow White like Elizabeth Debicki, who's 6'3".

The height-sensitive incels would have rioted instead.

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