The Controversy with Dwarves in Hollywood

Raising Heights with Zach & Tori

Zach & Tori Roloff

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Parenting, Relationships

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Instead of giving seven people with dwarfism the chance to play in the new Disney feature film Snow White, they settled with one — replacing six of the classic characters with CGI and animation.

While opinions are all over the place on this one, we have some big thoughts — this is Raising Heights with Zach and Tori, and in this episode, we dive into everything Hollywood has wrong, how the film industry could bring light to dwarfism to empower people in the community and how other movies and shows are normalizing dwarfism the right way.

We chat about:
🎬 Why the new Snow White movie shouldn’t happen (we’re boycotting)
🎬 The importance of normalizing dwarfism in film
🎬 Shows that do a great job bringing a realistic light to dwarfism
🎬 The full power of giving people with dwarfism on-screen roles

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0:00.0	Honestly forget Snow White, Seven Dwarves.
0:04.2	Tell that story.
0:05.1	Yeah, it should have been the Seven War.
0:06.9	Get rid of Snow White.
0:07.8	Yeah.
0:08.8	Yeah, why don't we just get rid of Snow White?
0:10.6	Yeah.
0:10.9	Who says Snow White's the big character in that movie? What's up guys? Welcome back to Raising Heights, the podcast where we can all get a little different perspective.
0:34.0	We're your hosts?
0:36.0	I'm Zach. I'm Tori.
0:38.0	Here we go.
0:40.0	Here we go.
0:41.0	Episode 6.
0:42.0	Let's do this. I can't believe we're already at 6. Yeah. For everyone who is coming back for episode 6, thank you for being on this journey with us and riding along as we have gone on this new adventure.
0:56.2	Yeah. And if this is your first time listening or watching, thank you so much for
1:00.7	being here. We're so good to have you. And today we have a really good episode.
1:05.8	I think we do. Yeah. But before we do that, peak and pit. So we like to do this each week. Our peak and pit of the week, our high, and our low.
1:16.4	Zachary, what was your pit?
1:18.4	My pit?
1:19.7	I'm really stressed about our landscaping. I can say this. It's almost springtime. If we're
1:26.8	going to plant grass in our backyard, we need to do it now. We need to get a
1:30.2	company lined up now. Next you know it's summertime and we're not going to do
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