Who is Peter Dinklage, the actor who declared war on Disney

“I hope I have enough poison for all of you,” cried Tyrion Lannister Peter Dinklage in the famous trial episode of Game of Thrones, and ended up winning the hearts of millions of viewers.

The professional life of the actor who immortalized Tyrion Lannister can be classified from New York. He currently lives there and this is the place where he doesn’t want to leave. There are, then, the stages we will call pre-new york, Lower East Side Y King of the Big Apple.

Me: before New York

This stage of Dinklage’s professional life may also be called “New Jersey.” Peter was born in Brookside from the womb of a music teacher and the “seed” of an insurance salesman. Another man who hovered over his house when he was little was his brother Jonathan, now a professional violinist.

Peter had a happy childhood; complex puberty. Dinklage was born with achondroplasiathe most common cause of dwarfism, and when he left the innocence typical of infants, he had to learn to live with discrimination.

He went to Delbarton High School and enrolled at Bennington Acting School in Vermont to become a professional actor. There he stood as a villain in musicals. Dinklage considers that although he was famous for Pinocchio, his best childhood role was that of Jud Fry in Oklahoma!

In Bennington he not only performed, he also formed a punk rock band with his friends. His name is Whizzy. They played sexually titled songs in slums and were only seen by men.

After graduating from Vermont school, Dinklage went on to “make America” in his home country: moved to New York to establish a theater company. This is where the “Lower East Side” stage begins.

II: Lower East Side

“Food is not as important as a person’s dignity,” Dinklage told The New Yorker. This phrase embodies the philosophy of life that ignites its path: you can say “no” even if you are short of money.

Another producer also was one who told The Guardian: “There are a lot of other jobs that pay rent and I don’t see acting as just a way to pay the bills, because it’s not really.”

The first thing he did when he came to New York was obviously rent a room. He and his 20-something friends got one on the Lower East Side for $ 300 per night. There he not only lives with humans, but also with some rats.

There was too much television and movies for his 1.35 meters – so he believed – and as a result he devoted his entire first stage in New York to landing roles in plays. Meanwhile, he works in an office that puts data and continues to reject the papers of elves or “Tolkienian” dwarfs, a stereotype that does not conform to his purpose.

His film career began in 1995 with Lives in Oblivionbut the film that began to lead him to the “King of the Big Apple” stage was The Station Agentpremiered in 2003.

Dinklage was discovered as a serious “A” talent by director Tom McCarthy, who saw him shine in a play and called him the star of his film The Station Agent, which is about a lonely man who lives in a train station in New Jersey.

The Station Agent won a major award at Sundance and served as a showcase for Peter. Then came her wedding to the theater director Erica Schmidt and, among other film and television production, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspianang death at a funeral, St. John of Las Vegas Y Game of Thrones.

III: The King of the Big Apple

You may be wondering: But didn’t Game of Thrones show a dwarf stereotype in character Tyrion Lannister? To resolve the hypothetical doubt, Dinklage took himself several times to explain that he liked the work of George RR Martin more than Tolkien for the simple fact that he takes the elves as human and not as “creatures”.

His participation in the series David Benoff Y DB Weiss It drove him straight to world stardom. Few people in the world with television don’t know his face … and they don’t have to watch the marathon series anymore.

Tyrion is an uncertain character playing his own game. He’s not one of the heroes or villains of the series and yet, oddly enough, he’s the most beloved of the fanatics and fanatics. Because of his intelligence and bravery, he is the owner of some of the show’s most beautiful scenes. Scenes that thrive on memorable performances. That, despite his weak participation in recent seasons, nothing has been forgotten.

Having missed the polarizing ending of Game of Thrones, Dinklage has missed Tyrion and, most of all, filming in beautiful Northern Ireland. The showrunners ’decision to end Game of Thrones was violent, but he supported them all the time.

While he was making Game of Thrones, he was called to play characters similar to Tyrion in fantasy fiction. But one is enough: “The last thing you want when you do Game of Thrones is to do something similar to Game of Thrones. I’m making a good version of that genre, so I don’t have to play ‘Beastmaster’ in my spare time. “

In the HBO series, the low life he wants to lose. Now he’s doing his best to get it, but the phones keep winning at him. When someone walks by with a camera, he thinks, “Every time someone asks me, ‘I love your work, can I take a picture?’ I like it, but what I don’t like is the sneaky picture. “

The “The King of the Big Apple” stage is the same on look back. “It’s fantastic. You look at leading men from the past and they’re very different. Hollywood is finally opening the door to more realistic portrayals of who people are. It’s not just about beautiful Hollywood stars,” he told The Guardian.

On the other hand, he doesn’t think he’s the “most politically correct” person in terms of dwarfism. “For example, if I saw a child and he was pointing at me, and the parent asked him to turn around, what would the child be? Someone who can’t make eye contact with someone 4.5 feet tall? Sadly, for me. I understand it at the time, because they don’t want to embarrass me. So what, are we going to have an educational seminar walking down the street? There’s no time for that, ”he told The New Yorker.

“You have a front seat when you’re someone like me, or anyone else physically. And that’s not really the way. But it’s okay. I understand. No, I’m not an artist to change the world in terms of how someone my size is portrayed. “

These days, the actor is in the eye of the storm due to Disney’s declaration of war. He told a podcast that the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is retrograde and the studio doesn’t have to make a new version of the classic but has “flesh and bone” actors.

Disney didn’t shy away and he made sure he talked to the dwarfism community to make sure they didn’t go with dwarf stereotypes. How will they do? Go to one to find out.

Given the choice between high-flying projects and even making them, Dinklage never forgets his past in low-budget films. Conversely, he believes that’s where he can connect with things that have nothing to do with money.

The actor thinks that gaining fame and money as an adult is an advantage: “If I had a good bank account when I was 20 years old, the damage I did to myself and other people around me … responsible, Now I feel I will be more responsible. ”

His latest character Cyrano de Bergerac, also lets him be seen as another talent. There he played the man giving the job title, but without a prominent nose. The ideas of Dinklage and director Joe Wright go the other way.

Peter agreed to be Cyrano because he liked the character, but also because of the messages behind the relentless work of Frenchman Edmond Rostand.

“We really wanted to break it all down and get to the core of what it is really about, which is everyone’s ability to feel unlovable, whether you have a giant nose or not. Anyone can get into the shoes I’m wearing now, in terms of parts. They don’t have to be my height. We all have that insecurity, the desire for something that we don’t know if we deserve, whether it’s a woman, a man or the love of anyone, “he explained about his new role in the cinema.

Cyrano will hit the Argentine screens at the end of February and run as a candidate for something at the next Oscars.

The title of this episode is supported by numbers: Peter won a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award and four Emmy Awards for his appearances in Game of Thrones and Three Commercials for a Murder.

As this story continues and remains unfinished, Dinklage, Erica and their two children try, no matter how hard, to sneak into some corner of their beloved New York.