Peter Dinklage makes me laugh. In his debut, the indie classic Living in Oblivion, he plays an actor cast to add spice to a dream sequence. Continually slighted on set by his colleagues, the token dwarf finally mutters, “I swear to Christ, one of these days I’m going to punch somebody in the balls!”
Many blistering performances later (not least as Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones), Dinklage is the leading man in Joe Wright’s latest big studio project. The joke’s on anyone who ever underestimated this drama king. As he proves here, there’s nothing he can’t do, though admittedly, this swashbuckling musical romance – yet another adaptation of the Edmond Rostand play – isn’t always worthy of its star.
