And starring roles are going to go to actors with tons of reputational capital, because they have fans and sell tickets. Note that the calculus is *completely different* for people with invisible disabilities/differences. Hollywood's always had gay stars.
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Yeah, Dinklage got a supporting role in a weird fringey sci-fi show and a) the show blew up and b) he was the best thing about it. That's lightning in a bottle, though.
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Another way to express the problem that's perhaps more compact: Every actor fears typecasting, for good reason; a visibly disabled/different actor is almost unavoidably typecast. You can make a career out of that in supporting roles, but not leading ones.
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I think to an extent (and much like many other current problems in Hollywood), this could be solved with better writing.
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Replying to @TyphonBaalAmmon @unorthodoxxxy and
Nah, the writers aren't making the decisions here.
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Replying to @St_Rev @unorthodoxxxy and
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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Replying to @TyphonBaalAmmon @St_Rev and
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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Terry Gilliam, who is now Extremely Problematic
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