-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Peter Dinklage may be best known for his Emmy-winning performance as Tyrion Lannister on “Game Of Thrones,” but the acclaimed actor wasn’t keen on pursuing a career in Hollywood from the get-go. Instead, Dinklage was set on being in a punk-funk band, he told Sean Evans while tackling a platter of spicy chicken wings on this week’s episode of “Hot Ones.” “Back in the day, I was like, ‘I’m not gonna be an actor.
I’m not gonna do any silly commercials or any of that, I’m gonna do plays downtown for no money in which I’m gonna throw up on the audience and I’m gonna be in a punk band,’” Dinklage — who is currently promoting his latest film “Brothers” — said. “We were Beastie Boys rip-offs and yeah, we had fun. It was a lot of fun.
And it was a couple years doing it, I got a cool scar on my temple. Head wounds bleed a lot. So I throw up on the audience, and I bleed on the audience.
It’s a very visceral experience if you wanna see me live.” Dinklage ultimately became an actor, but he recalled feeling “too angry for a long time” when he immersed himself in the industry: “I just knew what the entertainment business was serving up people who are my size and that to me wasn’t acting. But I surrounded myself with really brilliant people.
Not intentionally, but just friendships.” Related 20 years on, “Elf” reminds us that it’s OK to not feel secure in our adulthood He continued, “I call i.