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<p dir="auto"><strong>leyenda61</strong> — <em>11 years ago(March 06, 2015 05:25 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">he's fan-friggin-tastic! Just cast him in leading man roles, dernnit! Do his height always have to be a "character"?<br />
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<p dir="auto">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.<br />
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<p dir="auto">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.<br />
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<p dir="auto">WOW, raf-33!  Fantastic Asimov quote!<br />
Only in Show Biz by injection</p>
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<p dir="auto">He should play Superman in the next reboot.<br />
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.<br />
-Isaac Asimov</p>
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<p dir="auto">He's a great actor, when this is all over Im hoping to see him in Blockbusters.<br />
e god don' le  wen oral play w er oy.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I know right? That's not PC at all! Why does Hollywood always have to cast white people to play white characters and short people to play midgets?!</p>
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<p dir="auto">I don't think his height was an issue with his character in Pixelsand he had the best line when he told the creator of Pac Man:<br />
"I made your game my b****"<br />
lol.</p>
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<p dir="auto">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.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Sing along with Mister Ed: A dwarf is a dwarf, of courf, of courflolz</p>
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<p dir="auto">He is a dwarf. You can't just pretend he isn't <img src="https://filmglance.com/discuss/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f61b.png?v=8570fb93240" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--stuck_out_tongue" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":P" alt="😛" /> 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</p>
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<p dir="auto">Exactly! i thought he would have made a better Mountain than Hapthor.<br />
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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</p>
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<p dir="auto">You realize he wouldn't have got the chance to play Tyrion , if he wasn't a "little guy"?<br />
Hopefully this does lead to more roles that aren't simply due to his height. The guy is just a great actor.<br />
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.</p>
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<p dir="auto">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.<br />
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.</p>
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<p dir="auto">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.<br />
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.<br />
Revenge is a dish best served cold.<br />
Klingon proverb</p>
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<p dir="auto">I'd love to see him play a T-1000 when James Cameron gets his rights back.</p>
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<p dir="auto">While still a lot of movies deals with his height.<br />
seems like his role in the upcoming pixel could have been given to any guy of normal height..<br />
seems like he was just picked as an actor.<br />
Ned Charles:<br />
THE REASON I DON'T LIKE BLACK RAPPERS<br />
They don't rap about my life.</p>
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<p dir="auto">He could be a leading man. I know many women who think so.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Yeah he should start lifting weights, bulk up, and get cast in an action film.  He could be the next Rambo or Terminator.</p>
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<p dir="auto">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).<br />
Only in Show Biz by injection</p>
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<p dir="auto">If you bothered to read his biography you would see that the only thing that is not normal about him are his arms and legs. He does not have a midget face.  He's actually quite handsome.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Kind of hard to do when he's only 2 feet tall. Maybe he can wear stilts or something?<br />
That wouldn't work either, he'd still have his midget face. lol</p>
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<p dir="auto">His Iron Man suit would look ridiculous/cute instead of cool/intimidating, though.</p>
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<p dir="auto">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.<br />
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<p dir="auto">Kind of hard to do when he's only 2 feet tall. Maybe he can wear stilts or something?</p>
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