Standing tall among giants
Peter Dinklage is in a class by himself, commanding legions of fans around the world, thanks to his head-turning performance as Tyrion Lannister in the HBO series Game of Thrones (below, left) for which he won Emmy and Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor a
SINGAPORE — Big surprises do come in small packages. This is proven once again in this city when Peter Dinklage (a tongue-twisting surname, isn’t it?) drew ohs and ahs alongside Hugh Jackman and Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, his co-stars in Twentieth Century Fox’s X-Men:
Days of Future Past (directed by Bryan Singer, currently showing nationwide) on the Blue Carpet leading to a theater at Shaw House for the movie’s world premiere. Peter didn’t have to stand on tip-toe to have “selfie-selfie” with the screaming fans that crowded behind both sides of the barricades; the fans merrily, well, reached down to him.
In X-Men, his first time to star in the hit franchise, the 44-year-old American actor plays military scientist Dr. Bolivar Trask who invented enormous robotic weapons called the Sentinels, aiming to unite the human race by eliminating the mutants, its evolutionary rivals. Surely, it’s a character as challenging as Tyrion Lannister in the hit HBO series
Game of Thrones for which Peter has won two Best Supporting Actor awards from the Emmy and the Golden Globes.
At the general presscon the next day at the grand ballroom of Ritz Carlton where the X-Men entourage was billeted, Peter amused the media with his sense of humor as did the ever witty Jackman. In one scene, Jackman is shown naked rising from bed, leaving his partner fast asleep, and when a journalist asked Jackman how he felt during the shoot, Peter cracked before Jackman could answer, “I was his body double in that scene,” generating laughter and cheers in the hall.
Of course, everybody was too polite and respectful to ask Peter about his “great smallness,” although in an interview sometime in 2003, according to an Internet entry, somebody did and Peter said, “When I was younger, I definitely let it get to me. As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls. But the older you get, you realize you just have to have a sense of humor. You just know