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 Peter Dinklage
Interview By: Michael Dance Given the extensive range of roles that character actor Peter Dinklage has inhabited – many of them intense, angry, or depressed – it's perhaps no surprise that in person, he is the opposite: casual and easygoing. If your breakout role was playing a depressed dwarf in 2003's The Station Agent, which then segued into a role the same year playing a hilariously pompous children's book author who physically attacks Will Ferrell in Elf, you'd have to have a sense of detachment. After following that same path in 2007 of following up an indie (Death at a Funeral) with a Hollywood movie (Underdog), this year Dinklage plunges headfirst into a summer blockbuster with The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Dinklage plays Trumpkin, this time a dwarf in the fantastical sense, who befriends the four Pevensie children we met in 2005's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. He had been sought after for the role, and accepted it only after meeting the director of both Narnia films, Andrew Adamson. "I met with Andrew Adamson out in L.A., and I wasn't actually completely sold on doing it until I met him," Dinklage says. "I loved the first movie, but I was a little wary of my involvement and my character, because I hadn't read the script yet. I had read the book, but meeting Andrew changed my mind." Andrew, and the film's preproduction staff. "He brought me into the animation department where they were already storyboarding the movie, and I saw that they were already using my face as a reference for Trumpkin. So there I was all over the walls, and running with a bow and arrow on a computer, and I thought, 'Hm, that's me as a video game. I guess I can't say no. I guess I've got to make their jobs easier.'" It turned out to be the right decision, as Dinklage can't help but rave about his director. "He's such a creative force and such a nice person, in a great way," Dinklage says. "You meet nice people all the time, but they're sort of nice to just be people-pleasers, and Andrew's nice in such a genuine way, and so talented, I couldn't say no." Dinklage also managed to put a little of himself in the character this time. "Healthy cynicism" is how he describes Trumpkin's M.O. "A little bit of comedy, too," he says. "I think in this world of wonderment and exploration it's important to have somebody who's like, 'Well I don't want to do that. I want to go, you know, eat a sandwich.' For a Narnian, it's weird to be the character that roots it in reality. It's sort of an oxymoron. But it's fun to be the disgruntled hero, if I can call Trumpkin a hero." Going into a movie of that scale can be daunting for anyone, especially when most of the crew |
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