Are you saying all Asians are hip vocalists?
Um … “Snow White and the Seven Men of Diminutive Stature”? 
Some K-pop idols play instruments.
Here I was, googling ‘peter dinklage dwarf rant’, watching it again because it’s so funny (and spot-on, if you’ve ever worked on a no-budget film in your 20s), copying the link so I could share it, doing a Find on my name to make sure I didn’t post it already (because I posted it on Facebook the other day), and then doing a quick scan of the thread where…
I find that you guys beat me to it.
He’s an angry elf.
They could have done that for this:
Yeah, that’s an example I was thinking of.
He was good in The Angriest Man in Brooklyn.
Hollywood is very good at disguising the height of actors. The correctly framed shot and camera angle works amazingly well.
Sometimes the actor is on a rise and costar is below on the side of the hill. Or he’s on top of the curb and the costar stands on the parking lot
I’ve seen actors in paparazzi shots and was surprised. Seeing them in a group shot makes a big difference.
I realize careful camera shots doesn’t work for Dinklage.
That may be the common usage nowadays, but dwarfs were folkloric beings long before Tolkien or Disney, and “dwarfs” was the standard English plural until Tolkien popularized “dwarves.”
Yep. I believe “dwarves” as the plural of “dwarf” was an unintentional error on Tolkien’s part, but as with just about everything else he wrote it became an indelible part of the fantasy landscape. Hence the split in today’s usage.
He wrote the dictionary so he gets to say what the spelling is.
According to Wiki
The original editor of The Hobbit “corrected” Tolkien’s plural “dwarves” to “dwarfs”, as did the editor of the Puffin paperback edition.[T 20] According to Tolkien, the “real ‘historical’ plural” of “dwarf” is “dwarrows” or “dwerrows”.[20] He described the word “dwarves” as “a piece of private bad grammar”.[T 21] In Appendix F of The Lord of the Rings , Tolkien explained that if people still spoke of “dwarves” regularly, English might have retained a special plural for the word “dwarf”, as with the irregular plural of “goose”, “geese”.[T 15] Despite his fondness for it,[T 15] the form “dwarrow” only appears in his writing as “Dwarrowdelf” (“Dwarf-digging”), a name for Moria. He used “Dwarves”, instead, corresponding to his “Elves” as a plural for “Elf”. Tolkien used “dwarvish”[T 22] and “dwarf(-)” (e.g. “Dwarf-lords”, “Old Dwarf Road”) as adjectives for the people he created.[T 15]
Yes, that’s exactly the point. Peter Dinklage, famous for his roles in multiple fantasy franchises, is arguing that there shouldn’t be little people in fantasy. You have perfectly encapsulated his position, losing absolutely no nuance or context.
Disney has responded (although with a non-answer):
“To avoid reinforcing stereotypes from the original animated film, we are taking a different approach with these seven characters and have been consulting with members of the dwarfism community. We look forward to sharing more as the film heads into production after a lengthy development period.”
What’s wrong with Snow White and the Regular-Sized People?
There may be little people performers saying “sure Peter, you can afford to be indignant, but we need what work is out there.”
If you’re familiar with Oscar Wilde’s Birthday of the Infanta, that would be a better part for a little person: main character, emotional depth, audience identification. But Wilde’s fairy tales out-downer even Hans Christian Andersen’s.
A biopic of an actual little person would be swell. Little is known of their actual lives, so a lot could be plausible speculation. General Tom Thumb met so many great personages of the 19th C., he could be made into a version of Harry Flashman.
How about he is not being respectful of the source material. I love the story and hope Dinklage can make it work. But come on, is there a good reason to change it? “The nose plays,” as they say in Las Vegas.
Luckily, …and the Seven Dwarfs can be dropped from the title without causing any confusion. Just cast seven small actors without dwarfism and point out somewhere in the script that short men make good miners. All seven have personality quirks already without adding a characteristic associated with a sensitive genetic condition.
I had been looking forward to this when I first heard of it, being a big fan of the books, and thought Dinklage would have been perfect as Mongo.