George Coppen believes an actor with dwarfism should have played the role.
An actor with dwarfism is not pleased withHugh Grant’s casting as an Oompa Loompa in the upcomingWonkamovie.
“One door is being closed but they have forgotten to kick off the next one.”
Timothée Chalamet’s Willy Wonka and Hugh Grant’s Oompa Loompa in ‘Wonka’.Jaap Buittendijk/Warner Bros.
The Oompa Loompa says he’s a “perfectly respectful size for an Oompa Loompa.”
The character is 20 inches tall while the average height for an adult with dwarfism is around 48 inches.
“They’ve enlarged his head so his head looks bigger,” Coppen said of the first look.
“[I thought] what the hell have you done to him?”
EW has reached out to Grant and King’s reps for comment.
“What I wanted this movie to be was like a companion piece to that movie.
If you imagine those people in that world 25 years earlier, that was my starting process.
Eventually, he would grow into that person and that factory.”
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