Hot Ones: Peter Dinklage remembers his punk past

You might think you know what to expect from Peter Dinklage Hot. And sure, there's a necessary anecdote about it Charles Dance is super apologetic for all the mean things he said as Tywin Lannister game of Thrones. But Dinklage is currently promoting the Prime Video film brothersis more than his Emmy-winning performance as Tyrion. “Just try to define me, man,” the actor jokes when host Sean Evans mentions his ’90s “punk-funk-rap group” Whizzy.

“At the time I thought, 'I'm not going to be an actor.' “I'm not going to do any silly commercials or anything like that, I'm going to do free theater downtown where I puke on the audience and play in a punk band,” says Dinklage. “We were ripping off the Beastie Boys and yeah, we had fun. It was a lot of fun. And it took a few years before I got a cool scar on my temple. Head wounds bleed a much. So I puke on the audience and bleed on the audience. It’s a very emotional experience if you want to see me live.”

Of course, Dinklage ended up in the end Become an actorbut not before years of toil and struggle. “I think I was too angry for a long time. … I just knew what the entertainment industry had to offer People who are my size and that wasn’t acting for me,” he says. “But I surrounded myself with really brilliant people. Not intentionally, just friendships. I call it the tribe. And we have carried this friendship and the working environment into the future together, so to speak. 'Cause you can't do it alone, I couldn't do it alone. And the best thing about what I do professionally is collaboration. So I was just lucky enough to find really great people who inspired me. More every day.”