Let’s have a look at what some of our favorite current and former Game of Thrones cast members are up to, starting with Peter Dinklage, aka Tyrion Lannister. He’s got a new movie on HBO coming out on October 20: My Dinner with Hervé, about the life of actor Hervé Villechaize, who made a name for himself as Tattoo on Fantasy Island back in the ’70s:
Dinklage has come under some fire for whitewashing the movie, since it was commonly understood that Villechaize was half-Filipino, whereas Dinklage is not. He talked about the controversy to Entertainment Weekly. Dinklage’s defense? Don’t believe everything you read online. “It says on Wikipedia,” Dinklage explains. “Family members can’t change information on there. My daughter’s name was “Zelig” on Wikipedia for a long time. Her name is not Zelig. I don’t know who is able to put information up, but there are so many things on there that aren’t true. There’s this term ‘whitewashing.’ I completely understand that. But Hervé wasn’t Filipino. Dwarfism manifests physically in many different ways. I have a very different type of dwarfism than Hervé had. I’ve met his brother and other members of his family. He was French, and of German and English descent. So it’s strange these people are saying he’s Filipino. They kind of don’t have any information.”
"I don’t want to step on anybody’s toes or sense of justice because I feel the exact same way when there’s some weird racial profile. But these people think they’re doing the right thing politically and morally and it’s actually getting flipped because what they’re doing is judging and assuming what he is ethnically based on his looks alone. He has a very unique face and people have to be very careful about this stuff. This [movie] isn’t Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Personally, I would never do that, and I haven’t done that, because he wasn’t. People are jumping to conclusions based on a man’s appearance alone and that saddens me."
Yesterday when we looked at it, Villechiaze Wikipedia page. Now it doesn’t, with this interview cited as a source. Thanks, Peter Dinklage.
Moving on, former Thrones cast members Natalia Tena (Osha the wildling) and Oona Chaplin (Talisa, Robb Stark’s wife) are playing a lesbian couple in a new film called Anchor and Hope. Take a look:
The couple decide they want to have a child, and ask a male friend to be the father. Anchor and Hope will be in U.S. theaters this November.
And now to check in with the guy who (played the character who) killed Osha: Iwan Rheon, who is apparently happy to be clear of playing the sadistic Ramsay Bolton. “He wasn’t a very nice young man,” he said on Good Morning Britain when host Kate Garraway noted that Ramsay was one of the few characters to ever give her nightmares. “I’m kind of glad to put him behind me now.”
Well, it’s been a while. Was Ramsay really that bad?
Yup.
Soon enough, you can see Rheon walk the boards as William Bloor in Dawn King’s dark comedy Foxfinder, at London’s Ambassadors Theater. The play opens September 6.
We now move on to hair-related topics. To wit: Maisie Williams (Arya) now has bangs. Alert the presses!
Speaking of hair, Kit Harington (Jon Snow) talks about his new play, True West.
“Set against the searing heat of the Californian desert, True West pits brother against brother as a family tears itself apart, exposing the cracks in the American Dream,” reads the synopsis. “While housesitting for his mother, Austin (Harington) struggles to write his latest screenplay. Drifter and estranged brother, Lee (Johnny Flynn), stumbles back into Austin’s life, distracting him from his work and pushing him to his limits.”
True West opens at the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End on November 23.
Finally, let Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth) take you home by dancing in a new ad campaign for Italian fashion designer Miu Miu.
Well, nothing else is topping that.
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