My Dinner with Hervé
2018
My Dinner with Hervé

'My Dinner with Hervé' trivia and fun facts

Heights

Peter Dinklage is considerably taller than Hervé Villechaize. In reality, Villechaize was 3'11" while Dinklage is 4'5".

Former partners

Peter Dinklage and Oona Chaplin already shoot together in 'Game of Thrones'.

Billy Barty

In 1957, Billy Barty founded the Little People of America organization to help people with dwarfism. In 2017, Mark Povinelli was elected President of that organization. In this film, Povinelli plays Barty.

A great inspiration

Peter Dinklage has said for years that Hervé Villechaize has been a great inspiration because he algo had to work hard to find a job without being typecast.

Team work

Director Sacha Gervasi once conducted a lengthy interview with Hervé Villechaize just prior to the latter's death. He found a fellow admirer in Peter Dinklage, and they worked together on a screenplay for several years before HBO greenlit the movie, with Dinklage starring and Gervasi directing.

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