Peter Dinklage talks about Game of Thrones fans, shoots down Game of Thrones fan theory

Just this past Monday, Peter Dinklage won his third Emmy for his performance as Tyrion Lannister on Game of Thrones. How did the rest of the cast feel about that?

They are enthused.

Anyway, since then, he’s been talking up the win on the chat show circuit, including on Jimmy Kimmel Live! You can watch his interview below, where he puts a certain fan theory to bed.

The theory, such as it is, arose after Dinklage called castmate Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister) a “brother from another mother” during his Emmy acceptance speech. It was a sweet moment, but some Game of Thrones fans — industrious as we are — started to speculate that Dinklage was speaking about their characters, meaning that Tyrion and Jaime literally didn’t have the same mother. The word from Dinklage? Not so much. “I love that,” he said. “I would like to think I’d be smart enough not to just blurt out spoilers in front of the four viewers of the Emmys.”

Dinklage seems to have some mixed feelings about fans in general, or at least the ones who go to extremes. “I love the fans,” he said. “They are our joy, why we make the show. But sometimes they can follow you for several blocks. One block is okay, but once they go around the other block and meet you at the next corner…”

If I saw Peter Dinklage in the street, how far would I follow him before working up the courage to ask for a picture? Hopefully not that far. Incidentally, this is the kind of fan tattoo he’s talking about:

I’ve also got to mention this one moment from the interview, where Jimmy Kimmel says he’s not nervous to interview Dinklage because he plays “one of the good guys.” Dinklage’s response: “Maybe.” Let’s just tuck that away for later.

Next up, Dinklage talks about some of the pranks the cast and crew play on each other on set:

“I like to pretend I’m dead,” Dinklage reveals. “It’s fun.” For whom does he play dead? “Whoever. The wardrobe person, the producers, just my legs sprawled out in the trailer. You’ve gotta get really smooshed into the floor, like in a very awkward position.”

If the walls of that trailer could talk, would what it says be admissible in court?

Finally, Dinklage talked about a couple of movies on the horizon: My Dinner with Hervé, where he plays Fantasy Island star Hervé Villechaize; and I Think We’re Alone Now, a down-to-earth look at how ordinary people adjust to a post-apocalyptic world.

As long as we’re talking about the Emmys, let’s clear up another mystery before we go. When the cast and crew got on stage to accept the award for Outstanding Drama Series, did anyone else wonder who the random teenager was? He’s the one next to Gwendoline Christie in the photo below, left of center:

He’s not a cast member, and he doesn’t look old enough to be a producer, so what gives? Refinery29 did a little digging and found out that he’s the son of Game of Thrones producer and former HBO president Carolyn Strauss. Strauss, who is clearly the coolest mom ever, brought him onstage. Mystery solved!

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