![]() In Dinklage’s case, the obvious narrative usually regards his physical stature. Try to imagine how many times Hugh Jackman has been asked about his workout over a decade-plus of promoting these movies: you cannot. Reporters tend to want to compress all the complexities of an actor’s relationship to their role into an easily-digested personal or physical narrative. Like just about any creative pursuit, acting is a tricky thing to unpack in conversation. #3: Talk About What You Bring To The Role As he says, “you can’t grow up in the world without knowing about them.” But it’s not like the X-Men comic books are some obscure, underground text. For him (and for me, and really, probably for most people who would consider themselves fans of superhero movies), Bryan Singer’s first two X-Men films were the works that started it all. Poetry is apparently more his thing: poetry and True West.ĭinklage is pretty diplomatic when it comes to X-Men, though. Just recently on this very same promotional trail, he had to explain his recent comments, in which he described the Game of Thrones books as ‘confusing’ - which, you know, fair enough. The press junket is therefore generally an opportunity for the blockbuster actor to unconvincingly proclaim themselves ‘one of the fans’. Dinklage has treaded this water before. The decades-long rise of the nerd cohort to Western cultural dominance has seemingly not lessened their compulsion to have their interests and obsessions ratified by the attention of the ‘mainstream’, even though they now effectively rule it. Probably the most amusing consequence of the superhero franchise’s ascent to King of All Blockbusters status is the concomitant requirement that all associated actors must exhibit some sort of interest in comic book culture. He’s animated by a belief that mankind’s unity in the face of the mutant threat will ensure lasting world peace, and a conviction that his Sentinels are the best tools for the job - for the right price, of course. Trask embodies the banality of evil, and Dinklage plays him as a bureaucrat who - despite his predilection for experimenting on mutants - is an essentially mild guy. “Everybody who proposes war is proposing it for the Good”, he says. Wolverine must re-unite young Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) with his friend-turned-rival Magneto (Michael Fassbender) to stop Mystique before she inadvertently ensures their future destruction.ĭinklage doesn’t see Trask as a particularly bad guy, though - just an egotistical one. Back in the 1970s, young Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) is hot on Bolivar’s trail, determined to murder him for the torture and deaths of her mutant friends: it’s Trask’s murder, though, that will set off a chain of events that leads to the Sentinel project’s success. His mission is not to kill Trask, but to save him. The surviving X-Men send Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) back in time to avert the war before it starts.
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