Here's a fun Dinklage interview from HBOWatch. Enjoy.
Playing the role of Tyrion Lannister was not necessarily a lifelong dream realized by Emmy winning actor, Peter Dinklage. In a recent interview, Mr Dinklage expressed his general disdain for the way most fantasy properties portray people his size saying,
“I try not to read too much into it, but there’s a bit of a bias, where you’re thought of as a mystical creature, which is a bit absurd.
“I have a great sense of humor – and a dark sense of humor – about everything, but it is a bit narrow-minded sometimes, where if they have a dwarf character, the shoes have to curl up at the end, he has this inherent wisdom, he isn’t sexual, all of that.
“You look at something like Snow White, and each of the dwarves is just one thing – this one sneezes, this one is angry, this one is tired. And that’s sometimes still true for modern-day stories. But it’s not just for dwarves, that could be the case for anybody, for women, for people of color.
“Right now it’s Middle Eastern people who are all playing terrorists. It’s short-sighted. But life is too short – no pun intended – to be interested in roles that haven’t got any meat to them.”
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