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A consultant on Disney’s upcoming remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has spoken out about the film being a ‘good opportunity’ to change how members of the dwarfism community are represented on screen. Dr Erin Pritchard, a disability studies and education lecturer at Liverpool Hope University, has revealed that she considers her role on the project as something that will stop people ‘pointing and laughing at dwarfs’.

Talking to Team GB Paralympian Will Perry for The One Show – who also has achondroplasia – Dr Pritchard shared that her work with Disney was ‘still ongoing’, having been asked to consult on the movie before Christmas. She explained: ‘My recommendations are based on how we can still have a family-friendly film but without pointing and laughing at dwarfs.’ She added: ‘I think it’s a actually a good opportunity to change the representation [of dwarfs] – not ban it, but change it.’ As part of her ongoing work to change attitudes, Dr Pritchard said she was pushing for ‘positive representations, more true-to-life representations where a person with dwarfism is just a schoolteacher or works in a bank’.

Sophie [Lambe] is currently working for costume designer Sandy Powell on Disney's Snow White at Pinewood Studios.

Toky wrote:Ziegler cut her hair short, so presumably SW will have her signature hairdo

Disney Duster wrote:

Toky wrote:Ziegler cut her hair short, so presumably SW will have her signature hairdo

This was noted at the bottom of the previous page. But no harm. I wish we had a historically accurate and prettier style of hair for Snow, but oh well.