During a recent appearance on Andrew Schulz’s Flagrant with Akaash Singh, Peter Dinklage from ‘Game of Thrones’ shared his thoughts on Taylor Swift.
“Culturally, Taylor Swift is huge, she’s everywhere,” the actor said. “But I also go, what about Nirvana? What about The Beatles? What about this? What about that? But it’s like, Taylor all the way.”
“I’m like, thank God, and we blast Nirvana in the car when we’re together,” Dinklage noted after saying that his son loves Nirvana. “And I think it’s like, oh my God, it’s what people were like with like, The Beatles, the old parents were like, what is that stuff?”
Peter further talked about Swift, “But she’s really something. Pop music can be a little bit bubblegum, but they’ve put some real genius behind it, which is smart.”
The actor has two kids with his wife, Erica Schmidt: a girl born in 2011 and a boy born in 2017. They haven’t shared their names.
Dinklage’s new film ‘The Thicket’ arrived on September 6. He plays Reginald Jones, a bounty hunter who uses a knife instead of talking. “Westerns are funny because especially in America, we have this idea of genres — horror movies, Westerns — and they have to be a certain thing,” he told Rolling Stone about the film.
The actor added, “It’s like, are we following the formula of Western movies, or what actually happened in the West? Clint Eastwood, or John Wayne in ‘The Searchers’ — great movies. But did they create what it is, or how much did they draw upon the history of what actually the West was? It’s a really fascinating thing.”
“That sort of frontier, outlaw lawlessness and all of that, I’m sure existed. But the cliches perhaps didn’t,” Peter also shared. “Moviemakers have put these in there. And now, as an audience, we expect them. What I liked about Joe Lansdale’s book is that I’d never really read characters like this before in this genre.”
Juliette Lewis plays a villain in the movie. The role was originally written as a man in Joe Lansdale’s 2013 novel. Metallica’s James Hetfield also appears in a smaller role.
