stop casting him as "the little guy"
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Cocoa_Butter77 — 11 years ago(March 11, 2015 08:52 PM)
In the few movies where he is a leading man,a big part of the plot has to do with his height. I think directors also want to cast him as ugly characters, like M.O.D.O.K. from Captain America. X-men Days of Future Past was the only movie that I saw that didn't mention his height or anything.
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kswiss89 — 11 years ago(April 03, 2015 05:37 AM)
Exactly this, his character in xmen was the only movie I've ever seen that didn't make him a dwarf, the movie pays no attention to it or ever mention it. He's a great actor, doesn't deserve the asterisk some people include to mention he's a great dwarf actor
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leyenda61 — 11 years ago(March 21, 2015 08:30 PM)
Tell me you couldn't see him doing a great job as Tony Stark. Other than RDJ i can't imagine another actor that could put such a vreat spin on the portrayal. PD is captivating enough to take center stage productions.
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PattyGJones — 9 years ago(July 06, 2016 11:31 PM)
Actually he's 4'5", rather tall for a dwarf, and a major-league hottie. He doesn't have "dwarfish" features either. Anyway, you're sounding like a troll saying lame things about stilts. His brilliantly-played lead role in The Station Agent was an ordinary guy who just happened to be a dwarf. I thought he was funny in Pixels, but wish there were more roles where his size wasn't such a significant factor (or where producers/directors had the guts to not see it as a factor).
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Allan-All-In — 10 years ago(June 25, 2015 08:08 AM)
While still a lot of movies deals with his height.
seems like his role in the upcoming pixel could have been given to any guy of normal height..
seems like he was just picked as an actor.
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JackSparrow92 — 10 years ago(September 21, 2015 08:22 AM)
He may be the first "little person" (I say that because I understand that's the acceptable term) to become accepted as an actor, and not just as "a little person actor". It obviously has a great deal to do with his fantastic performance as Tyrion, which marked something of a first in that he had one of the leading roles and his stature has never been played for laughs.
Probably thanks to his work as Tyrion, when watching him in X-Men: Days of Future Past, I found that I wasn't paying attention to his stature at all. More just marveling at his badassery. Respect.
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GirlwonderReturns — 10 years ago(March 18, 2016 06:26 AM)
I dunno Zelda Rubinstein was shorter than Dinklage and she had quite a successful career. Her biggest role was probably Tangina, the medium in "Poltergeist", and that had no focus on her height that I recall. She was on "Picket Fences" for years, too. But Dinklage may well be the first male LP actor to transcend his height.
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skepticalmale — 10 years ago(September 21, 2015 10:47 AM)
You realize he wouldn't have got the chance to play Tyrion , if he wasn't a "little guy"?
Hopefully this does lead to more roles that aren't simply due to his height. The guy is just a great actor.
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nex-9 — 10 years ago(October 05, 2015 04:53 AM)
Exactly! i thought he would have made a better Mountain than Hapthor.
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my point being he plays little people because (brace yourself) he IS a little person, and like others have said, he isn't as typecast as you think
There is nothing wrong with being a dwarf obviously, but just like he can't play a 2 meter tall northerner, I couldn't play a dwarf