I guess there is a big difference between USA and UK here. I haven't seen SNL so can't comment (apart from some old Blues Brothers clips) Plenty of old films have white actors playing non-white roles with no intentional parody.
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They don't directly make the casting decisions no, but they do have an influence. Since Dinklage was mentioned above, one of the interesting things about his role in Game of Thrones is that he's a normal dwarf, not the supernatural non-human version you generally get in fantasy.
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Time to rewatch _Time Bandits_, I think.
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I don't think this is addressed in the film but the dwarves in Time Bandits are former employees of "The supreme being", it's not exactly a wild idea to presuppose that they themselves are some sort of lesser supernatural beings. In Bruges would be a better recent example.
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Yeah, they're... Angels, I guess? I was more thinking that the author was like, <I'm gonna make a movie, and it's gonna star every little person I know.> Which is actually pretty ballsy, TBH.
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