A big task for 007, but is he up to the challenge? Of course he is!įor a pay cheque of $240,000 plus 2.5% of the profits, Roger Moore was willing to reprise the role of Bond for a second shot. 20.In which James Bond sets out on an unofficial mission to track down Scaramanga, who has sent MI6 a golden bullet with 007 carved on it he has to find Scaramanga before Scaramanga finds him! However, there are no photographs of his enemy, so no one knows what he looks like – whereas everyone knows what Bond looks like. “My Dinner with Hervé” premieres on HBO on Saturday, Oct. He offended a lot of people, but that was part of his joy as well. “Sometimes I think we tiptoe around the issue so much we never address it. But he beat people to the punch with the word, and he had a big middle finger up to anyone who tiptoed around any issues they had. For that very reason, Dinklage was initially reluctant to play Villechaize but ultimately could relate, describing in the interview how he turned down a role to play one of Santa’s elves in a commercial early in his career.Īlso Read: 'Game of Thrones' Star Peter Dinklage Stares Down Morgan Freeman in Super Bowl Ad (Video)ĭinklage also shared an interesting note saying that the word “midget” is like “the n-word if you’re a small person,” but that Villechaize once wore a shirt that read “Bionic Midget” and pushed issues as they related to language and representation. It delves into how Villechaize fought for equal pay as his “Fantasy Island” co-stars and was often typecast because of his dwarfism. The film documents Villechaize’s career and hard-partying lifestyle leading up to his death by suicide in 1993.Īs Dinklage describes it, “My Dinner With Hervé” is a film specifically about not judging a book by its cover. “But when I start to be accused of things that are not truthful and not real, that’s when you want to say, “OK, calm down.”ĭinklage stars as Villechaize in HBO’s upcoming biopic “My Dinner With Hervé” alongside Jamie Dornan. “Hervé would be laughing at this right now, and part of me is too,” Dinklage said.
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He also said that his casting shouldn’t be compared to “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” which features a notorious example of Asian whitewashing in which Mickey Rooney portrays an Asian man.ĭinklage said he’s met Villechaize’s family, who knew him to be a “proud” person who would’ve been proud of his heritage if he were Filipino.Īlso Read: Peter Dinklage Is Now the Most-Nominated Actor in the Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Category
He has a very unique face and people have to be very careful about this stuff.” 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. “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. They kind of don’t have any information,” Dinklage continued. “It’s strange these people are saying he’s Filipino. He further clarified that Villechaize’s specific dwarfism had to do with his appearance, which may have led to some of the misinformation. Dinklage said that Villechaize was French-born of German and English descent, but that he saw on Wikipedia that he was often considered Filipino.
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