Peter Dinklage used to "throw up" on the audience when he was in a punk band.
The Game of Thrones actor was in a "punk-funk-rap group" called Whizzy in the 1990s and he joked seeing him in action was a "very visceral experience" because he had a "lot of fun" and gave his all to his performance.
Appearing on 'Hot Ones', he said: "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.'
“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.”
The 55-year-old star eventually gave up music for acting but admitted he was "too angry for a long time" as he was so frustrated about the roles on offer for actors with dwarfism, but he ultimately built up a "really great" network.
He said: "I was angry, I think, too angry for a long time. … 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. I call it the tribe. And we just carried that friendship and working environment sort of one in the same into the future together. ‘Cause you can’t do it alone, I couldn’t do it alone.
"And that’s the beauty of what I do for a living, is the collaboration. So I was just lucky to find really great people who inspired me. More so everyday.”
One of Peter's favourite people to have worked with is Charles Dance, who played his onscreen father Tywin Lannister in 'Game of Thrones' and he told how the 78-year-old star used to reassure him between takes because of the toxic dynamic between their two characters.
Peter - who played Tyrion Lannister - said: “I love Charlie Dance, he’s one of my favourite human beings and he played my father on the show and all my father…did on the show was humiliate me and sentence me to death…so he made a habit, ’cause we would get really invested in those things…talk about great dialogue.
"Dan Wiess and David Benioff gave us the greatest dialogue, so it really felt really lived in…just like between every take, he would come over and just gently touch me on the shoulder. We wouldn’t hug it out ’cause of time, and it felt very paternal too.
"He played a horrible human being, but he’s one of my favourite human beings and it was a shame how that one ended, on the toilet…”
