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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Obviously touched a never with Dinklage.  I doubt any of us can truly understand his feelings which are based on his experiences.

He's entitled to his opinion and his expression of it.  I don't have to agree.  Disney doesn't have to agree.

I think it's brave to speak out when he must realize cancel culture will be coming for him.[/quote]

Yet he has played into those exact stereotypes in past roles. [/quote]

I'm not familiar with all his roles but Tyrion is a complex character and, some say, THE main character of GOT.  Ground breaking work on Dinklage's part.[/quote]

I suppose the part of an angry little man in Elf was groundbreaking work as well?[/quote]

Ha nothing in the movie was groundbreaking. And I'm not sure that he really was playing into stereotypes...is angry CEO Little Person a stereotype? He had a real personality, especially for somebody with such a small role.

Anyway, Dinklage has taken measures to avoid playing into stereotypes. I just found this 2012 article and it looks like it's hard for him as an actor to balance it all.

"Dinklage stayed in New York and soon was landing stage work and the occasional low-budget film. But he couldn’t book commercial jobs, because he wasn’t interested in the kinds of roles that paid well for dwarves. Specifically, he wouldn’t play elves or leprechauns."

And then:

"Dinklage was cautious during his first “Game of Thrones” meeting. In the film “Prince Caspian,” part of the “Chronicles of Narnia” series, he had played the dwarf Trumpkin and spent the seven-month shoot in Eastern Europe and New Zealand sweating under a long red beard. “It was a lovely experience,” he said diplomatically, “but it was pretty uncomfortable.” So in that meeting with Benioff and Weiss, before anyone explained “Game of Thrones” or Tyrion Lannister to him, he made a simple request: no beard, no pointy shoes. “Dwarves in these genres always have this look. My guard was up. Not even my guard — my metal fence, my barbed wire was up. Even ‘Lord of the Rings’ had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It’s like, Really?” But he learned from Benioff and Weiss that Tyrion was a different kind of fantasy little person. “He’s somebody who turns that on its head. No beard, no pointy shoes, a romantic, real human being.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/magazine/peter-dinklage-was-smart-to-say-no.html[/quote]

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