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Hugh Grant's Wonka casting renews a conversation about dwarfism in film

movies who also co-founded a theatrical agency that specializes in little people actors, also pondered the problem in the samepiece. “There’s been a lot of talk recently about, is it right to shrink an average-size actor [with digital effects] to fulfill a little-person role? On one side, I could say, yeah, you should never do that, you’re taking work away from a short actor. Would you cast an average-size actor to pay a disabled character in a wheelchair?” He pondered.

Hugh Grant may be the performer everyone wants nowadays—in a long career of hits, he’s had recent franchise success in films like

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