Originally published June 24, 2017. Updated April 11, 2018.
Game of Thrones isn’t the only project Peter Dinklage is lending his talents to over at HBO, as the network has unveiled a first-look image of the actor in My Dinner With Hervé.
The upcoming TV movie takes a look at the life of Fantasy Island and The Man with the Golden Gun star Hervé Villechaize (described as “the world’s most famous gun-toting dwarf” by HBO), who took his own life in 1993. Check out the image, which features co-star Jamie Dornan (50 Shades of Grey) as struggling writer Danny Tate alongside Dinklage’s Villechaize, below…
Being perhaps the most accomplished and celebrated dwarf actor of all time makes Dinklage a good choice to fill Villechaize’s shoes, although it’s worth noting that Dinklage isn’t of Filipino and English descent like his counterpart.
My Dinner with Hervé is set during “one wild night” in Los Angeles, just days before Villechaize’s suicide, where Villechaize and Tate strike up an unlikely friendship; the events of the night change the course of both of their lives. Dinklage has been developing the project with director Sacha Gervasi (Hitchcock) for years, and now it’s finally coming to fruition, with a script by Gervasi and Sean Macaulay.
Deadline recently reported on the new cast additions of Mireille Enos (The Catch), Oona Chaplin (Game of Thrones) and Harriet Walter (Black Sails), who are set to play Villechaize’s girlfriend, Tate’s girlfriend and Tate’s newspaper editor, respectively. A release date has not yet been set for the film.
