Dwarf Actors...are upset

[WD-40]

I'm laughing my ass off!!

Dwarf actor group threatens '100 midget march' to protest normal-sized actors used in 'Snow White'
Snubbed dwarfs are raging at the makers of Hollywood film "Snow White and the Huntsman" for casting average-sized people as the film's seven dwarfs.

The dwarf actors are threatening to protest against the film -- which stars Oscar-winner Charlize Theron -- with a "100-midget march," according to a report in TMZ.

Los Angeles dwarf theater group Beacher's Madhouse is fuming -- arguing that filmmakers would never use white actors and then digitally turn them black.

Matt McCarthy -- a 4ft, 1in dwarf who heads the group -- fired off a letter to Universal Chairman Adam Fogelson, saying, "In response to and in protest of this incredible injustice and prejudice, the Beacher's Madhouse midgets and I are coordinating a 100-midget march to Universal's offices."

McCarthy adds that casting average-sized actors as Snow White's dwarfs "is the equivalent of Universal casting a white actor to play a role written for an African-American person and digitally changing the color of their skin".

Another dwarf group, The Little People of America, said the entertainment industry should be actively casting little people.

A spokesman said, "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."

In the film, the dwarfs are played by actors Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins, Toby Jones, Eddie Marsan, Brian Gleeson, Ray Winstone, Nick Frost and Johnny Harris.

Director Rupert Sanders used camera angles and special effects to make them appear like dwarfs, including digitally inserting their faces on to the bodies of shorter people.

Ohhh....and Midget.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/06/06/dwarf-actor-group-threatens-100-midget-march-to-protest-normal-sized-actors/

[[m'kay]]

Well honestly, I can kinda see why they'd be pissed. It isn't often that dwarf actors manage to land jobs in works that aren't comedies, and the majority of them likely assumed that Snow White and the Seven Dwarves would have some [m'kay] dwarves in it, gnome sayin?

[Duel of Fates]

Wait, where was this outcry when Peter Jackson filled his cast of hobbits and dwarves with regular sized actors? No justice for Middle Earth?

Seriously though, this is America. If I wanted to do a remake of The Wizard of Oz, I have to use midgets? Otherwise I might piss off a whole group of movie goers that have to sit on telephone books just to see over the theater seats? Instead of whining about it, they should go independent and make their own films.

I hope they do march though. I love watching angry midgets.

[NiteRunner81]

Well honestly, I can kinda see why they'd be pissed. It isn't often that dwarf actors manage to land jobs in works that aren't comedies, and the majority of them likely assumed that Snow White and the Seven Dwarves would have some [m'kay] dwarves in it, gnome sayin?

Not to mention the savings from not having to use those special editing or filming techniques.

I wonder what Matt Roloff would say about this?

[(SWGO)Minas_Thirith]

Wait, where was this outcry when Peter Jackson filled his cast of hobbits and dwarves with regular sized actors? No justice for Middle Earth?

What person, would want to be a dirty, smelly, fat, hairy hobbit

MT

[Brazosgrad]

Oh get over it. It's gonna be a short protest.

No really.

[Brazosgrad]

But I do admire them for standing up for what's right.

[Brazosgrad]

I mean...wow! How often do you seen them rise to a worthy cause like this? I bet it really gives them a lift in the public eye.

Seriously.

[Brazosgrad]

...aaaaaand I don't think anyone should look down on them for speaking up. Dumb jerk insensitive movie directors. Who do they think they are anyway?

[Brazosgrad]

Stop me now...I'm like a runaway clown car...