Peter Dinklage is Bashing Disney
Peter Dinklage is bashing Disney and he makes a good point on his reason why. The reason is Disney just announced they're doing the live-action Snow White movie with Rachel Ziegler playing the character of Snow White, which has caused a lot of debate online because Zeigler is Hispanic and she is playing a traditionally white role similar to a backlash.
Disney got backlash for casting Halle Bailey to play Ariel in the upcoming Little Mermaid reboot.
But the Rachel Zeigler casting has caused anger from Dinklage who said Disney is being fake progressive.
The reason Dinklage gave is, he said Snow White and the seven dwarfs is extremely offensive to little people.
He said he's personally offended by the story because in seven dim-witted little people who live in a cave and are meant to be goofy.
Dinklage has held firm on this his entire career where even when he was struggling, he refused to play roles as elves, goblins, or anything like that.
Back when he was cast for his role in Elf in 2004, he added one condition that his character would not be an Elf and Disney has taken similar heat recently like with Mulan where they did declaim progressive tones in the movie.
But at the same time, they thank the Chinese province keeping Muslim people in concentration camps for letting them film there.
But Peter Dinklage’s belief is you can't just put a woke band-aid on something and call it not offensive.
He thinks Snow White should be shelved.