‘Long beard and pointy shoes’: Playing Tyrion on ‘Game of Thrones’ wasn’t a foregone conclusion for Peter Dinklage.

‘Long beard and pointy shoes’: Playing Tyrion on ‘Game of Thrones’ wasn’t a foregone conclusion for Peter Dinklage.

It’s 2010 and Peter Dinklage is anxiously awaiting his next meeting with producers DB Weiss and David Benioff. The latter, whom the actor often visited, took the initiative and contacted him and offered him a special role in the pilot of the new series HBO: Game of Thrones.

But if Dinklage looks a little suspicious as he waits for the interview, that’s because the series – adapted from a literary saga by a man named American Tolkien – is set in a fantasy medieval world.

Such a world, he is well aware, too often turns people of his situation into stereotypical heroes, which he has always been careful to keep out of his repertoire. From birth, Peter suffered from a disease with achondroplasia, which caused him to be a dwarf, who always refused to consider it an obstacle to his career, on the contrary.

When choosing meticulous roles, he categorically refuses to reduce characters to their situation, but mostly chooses more complex characters, far off the beaten track, Peter Dinklage Nevertheless, he accepted – for once not the usual – the costume of the Dwarf trompylon in the second part of the saga of Narnia, two years earlier.

"It was a wonderful experience, but quite uncomfortable." he told her New York Times March 2012 by echoing this little bearded, clichéd character miles away from his usual ambitions. His forehead is furrowed with fear that he will discover that Tyrion – the new character we are about to introduce – will be the same, he is already ready to draw weapons and a series of inappropriate conditions: “I was on my guard. (…) and surrounded by a metal barrier, an electric fence. “

Tyrion is my favorite character. Without a doubt. (…) He’s witty, intelligent, he’s a bit like what I want to be”

“I hesitated because it was a fantasy. I told him I didn’t want a long beard and pointy shoes.” He trusted Reddit four years later. “They convinced me that there was nothing to do with this character and this world, they told me about his complexity, that he was neither a hero nor a villain, that he is a running woman and a drunkard. They painted a beautiful picture of him, with his flaws, so I signed him.”

Joined by one of its most prestigious performers, the cast Game of Thrones – with the support of its special technical team – so it can work. A character described from the first episodes Weiss and Benioff He fulfills all his promises. Tyrion is sharp, alive, complex, tortured, deep. In a word, grand. as for Peter DinklagePutting his implacable delivery and dark gaze to the service of this extraordinary hero, he just signs the most important performance of his entire career.

From a supporting actress, she quickly became an international star, winning three Emmy Awards and earning critical acclaim. Apparently, by inviting him to his office that day, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss hit the nail on the head. As well as George RR Martin, who, according to rumors, also wanted to trust Peter Dinklage to interpret his beloved character.

Source: Allocine

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