Peter Dinklage Says Snow White Story is Offensive to Dwarves

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Snow White is a beloved Disney property, no matter how poorly it may have aged, and so the company is moving forward with a live-action remake starring West Side Story’s Rachel Zegler and directed by Marc Webb (currently attached to the similarly necessary live-action remake of anime hit Your Name).

This week, Peter Dinklage stopped by Marc Maron’s WTF podcast to explain why he thinks that’s such a bad idea: “There’s a lot of hypocrisy going on,” he said. “Literally no offense to anyone, but I was a little taken aback when they were very proud to cast a Latina actress as Snow White. But you’re still telling the story of Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.” Dinklage says Disney—though he didn’t know it was Disney doing the remake when he made these comments—is so eager to be “progressive in one way” but at the same time it’s “still making that fricking backwards story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together.”

“Have I done nothing to advance the cause from my soap box?” Dinklage asked, concluding, “I guess I’m not loud enough.” He conceded that he’d be excited to see a “fricked up, cool, or progressive spin” on the story, but he can’t believe Disney would want to just do a straight remake of the old Snow White.

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