Peter Dinklage contemplates his future in cinema at the Berlin Film Festival
Peter Dinklage describes the "fork in the road" he faced at age 50 while promoting Rebecca Miller's She Came To Me
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Some actors put up diminishing returns in their performances over time, but many of our best actors continue to get better with age. It would be a shame to miss out on some of those more mature performances, but at the same time no one could blame a star for wanting out of the circus (or for wanting to escape Hollywood’s notorious ageism). All of these, presumably, are part of Peter Dinklage’s own contemplations for his future, as he expressed during a press conference at the Berlin Film Festival.
“I’m 53. I wonder if I want to be an actor for the next 30 years,” Dinklage said while promoting the new film She Came To Me (per Variety). “It’s a fork in the road. It’s a common story when you hit 50: There’s a fork in the road and you either wait for inspiration or you seek it out, and I intend to keep seeking it out.”
“Actors sit around waiting for the jobs to come,” he added. “Painters can paint, writers can write, musicians can play… actors don’t have that ability. So, we have to wait around or create and collaborate on our own things. The question is, what inspires you? What inspires me is the written word at that point in my life. I couldn’t have played this [role] 20 years ago or 20 years from now.”
She Came To Me, directed by Rebecca Miller, is described by Deadline as a “light but pungent” ensemble romantic comedy starring Dinklage, Marisa Tomei, and Anne Hathaway. Dinklage’s character, who serves as Tomei’s romantic obsession, is an opera composer dealing with a creative block. He leads the film “with a fusion of cunning and grace,” per Variety’s Owen Gleiberman.
At the press conference, Dinklage noted that choosing roles has “so much to do with where you are in your own life—creatively, non-creatively—and Rebecca brought this to me at the perfect point in my life.” Here’s to many more years of Dinklage on screen.
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I would hate for his career to end short.
Peter Dinklage, seen here about to go “full Gollum” on that lady’s ring fingers.
I hope he turned to that lady right after the shot and said, “Give ME The Precious!”
Racist.
Peter Dinklage, giving you his elevator pitch for a biopic about Jack Dorsey
On the subject of Dinklage, did anyone else settle down to watch “Cyrano” and, 5 minutes in go, “It’s a F#$%ING MUSICAL??”Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m down for a good musical. But exactly ZERO seconds of the marketing for that movie said, oh yeah, they’re singing all through this bish.
I really liked his Cyrano, but yeah – the music was a surprise to me.Years back he was said to be considering making a movie out of one or more of George Chesbro’s Mongo mysteries. Kinda crossing my fingers for that to still happen, if only because those books would come back into print. (Mongo the Magnificent is the ex-stage name of a criminology professor and private eye named Robert Frederickson.) The mysteries often have a nice supernatural tinge to them, Mongo is a compelling protagonist. He used to be a circus acrobat. Still pretty agile plus he’s a karate expert, smart as hell, and a dwarf.
I mean, the trailer literally has the main characters singing and shots of crowds of people doing choreographed dancing. I don’t know what more you would expect; a chyron saying “this is a musical”?
I have since gone back and seen trailers for it with music, but I SWEAR i never saw one when the movie first came out. And I wasn’t alone– the person I watched it with was also completely surprised.