Peter Dinklage on Tyrion's Game of Thrones fate: "Death can be a great way out"

Vulture

In a Q&A with Vulture, Dinklage may have hinted that Tyrion Lannister dies at the end of the HBO series. "I feel very, very — I’m trying to find the right word," he said. "I think he was given a very good conclusion. No matter what that is — death can be a great way out." Interviewer David Marchese added of Dinklage's comment: "I took what Dinklage was saying here not as a suggestion that Tyrion dies, but rather his attempt to leave open the possibility that the character might meet that fate." Dinklage also contrasted his Tyrion role with that of Hervé Villechaize in HBO's My Dinner With Hervé. "I was a little Method with Hervé — staying in that voice," he said. "But you can’t really be Method for nine seasons of a TV show. You’d go nuts. And there’s a difference between being Method and indulgent. You can smell that ego thing a mile away. It’s good to stay in the zone, but if it’s about showing off your peacock feathers, I’m not buying it. Acting is a trick. I wouldn’t say it’s difficult. Elements of it are. For me, the fame thing is. But the work itself — we’re not digging ditches for a living. I think acting is one of the professions where everybody who’s doing it wants to be doing it. That’s not true for every job."