Peter Dinklage lands new role at HBO, and Joe Dempsie (Gendry) set to play a super spy
By Corey Smith
Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister) has landed another HBO project, according to Deadline. No, it’s not for one of the newly announced Game of Thrones spinoffs. Rather, Dinklage will play actor Hervé Villechaize, known for playing Bond villain Nick Nack and Tattoo on Fantasy Island, in My Dinner with Hervé. The movie will focus on the friendship between Villechaize and struggling journalist Danny Tate (50 Shades of Grey’s Jamie Dornan), which develops over “one wild night in L.A.” The movie is written and directed by Sacha Gervasi, who interviewed Villechaize shortly before the actor committed suicide in 1993. He was 50.
In addition to playing the title role, Dinklage will executive produce the film. He and Gervasi have been developing it for a decade, so it’s a passion project for him.
Elsewhere, Joe Dempsie (Gendry) has joined the cast of Deep State, a spy thriller from the Fox Network Group, per Variety. The project will shoot entirely in Europe and Africa, and represents the first effort by Fox Network Group to “source, develop and produce original productions at a regional level” on the two continents.
Mark Strong will headline the eight-part series as Max Easton, an ex-spy who reenters the business seeking revenge for the death of his son. And Dempsie play Harry Clarke, a spy “whose moral compass proves too rigid for the kind of work he has to carry out.” Now that sounds interesting. Production is currently underway in Morocco, before shifting to London.
Finally, Sophie Turner (Sansa) recently met Hillary Clinton at a luncheon for Women for Women International, which is neat.
Women for Women is a UK-based international charity which “supports the most marginalised women to earn and save money, improve health and well-being, influence decisions in their home and community, and connect to networks for support” in countries “affected by conflict and war.”