stop casting him as "the little guy"
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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.
Although one role I'd like to see him play , that relies on his stature is Miles Vorkosigan, he's a badass in Tyrion's class. -
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 -
alexdgraphicdesign — 10 years ago(March 04, 2016 12:36 AM)
That's actually not true at all. In the lord of the rings, the four main hobbits were played by average size actors and Gimli the dwarf was played by a 6 ft actor. There are other movies but I think i've made my point.
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leyenda61 — 9 years ago(September 16, 2016 06:57 PM)
I'm tellin ya, when i see that beard and think about his voice and acting skills the first thing I think of is that he'd d a fantastic nob playing a Klingon. Yes, I know it is "against type", but still I think hed9rock it out.
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leyenda61 — 9 years ago(September 19, 2016 04:53 AM)
I'm tellin ya, when i see that beard and think about his voice and acting skills the first thing I think of is that he'd d a fantastic nob playing a Klingon. Yes, I know it is "against type", but still I think hed9rock it out.
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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