Peter Dinklage Says There’s “No Shame” in the Public Still Associating Him With ‘Game of Thrones’ – “It was eight seasons. So that’s 80 hours of me! Everybody globally, everybody got 80 hours of Dinklage … It’s bound to follow me around.”

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  1. > When you were on Kimmel the other day, you were still introduced with a mention of Game of Thrones. Are you comfortable with that being attached to you perhaps permanently at this point?

    > When you do a Rolling Stone cover, you make your bed, man. [Laughs.] It would be very difficult if I wasn’t proud of that show, but I happen to be insanely proud of that show. I love that character. And I’m still good friends with and I love the creators, David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss]. It was about ten years of our lives from the first time they told me about it to when we wrapped the final season. I raised two kids part time over in Ireland. There’s no shame in that. There’s only pride. And it was eight seasons. So that’s 80 hours of me! Everybody globally, everybody got 80 hours of Dinklage … It’s bound to follow me around.

  3. I hadn’t seen any of his other work when I saw an interview. I was like, “Why’s he doing that weird American accent?”

  7. I was a fan of GOT…but, whenever I see him my first thought is always, “He’s an angry elf.”

  8. Oh no, he’s well-known for his role as the smart guy that kicked ass, drank and got laid a lot, smacked Joffrey, which we all wanted to do, and lived to the end of the series.

    He is still working though, and based on his performance in that show, people would be dumb not to hire him. As long as that’s happening, he may come across another role that people will really associate with him, and then it’ll start all over.

  12. Dinklage helped make GoT good, when it was good, and got us through when it wasn’t. Of course he’s happy to associated with it! Just because D&D shafted the world with the ending doesn’t mean the actors can’t be proud of the hard work they invested.

  13. I remember his quotes about how hard it was for him to find work when he would turn down roles that went against his principles. It’s probably not lost on him how he went from that to perhaps the most famous role of a little person ever.

  14. Perfect response. I understand when people get sick of being known for just one character (like De Niro and Travis Bickle), but I also appreciate actors who embrace it and understand that’s just how it goes when you are part of a cultural phenomenon.

  15. 80 hours of Dinklage is in fact, a lot of Dinklage. Good to see he sees the upside.

  16. Yes. That’s fine. But he also nixed the career of other short people trying. So “follow me it’s great. [I get paid. But f the others.]”

  17. He has such a phenomenal gift of acting. He is so enjoyable in any role .

  18. The phrase “80 hours of Dinklage” is the funniest goddamn thing I’ve ever read.

  19. I ain’t watching nothing with him in it because it reminds me of that shitass ending.

  21. Sadly nobody outside the books or who had HBO during the early years will care about him anymore than thinking he’s the guy killing jobs everywhere for his own kind in movies/television.

  23. Gotta be the super nerd here and mention that the 80 hours comes from thinking each season of GoT had 10 episodes. That’s not the case. There’s actually 73 episodes. Peter Dinklage is also not in every episode. Yes I’m being a nerd but it’s a nerd show!

  26. He’s so many people to me, my favourite though is the station agent, man I loved that movie.

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