"I may be small, but I never forget"
Peter Dinklage, who portrayed The Man with the Golden Gun star Hervé Villechaize in the biopic, My Dinner with Hervé, has spoken about the "looks" he gets for being 4ft 5in tall.
"Being my size, I get second looks quite often", he said with a sigh. "My whole life, I've had stares".
Born with achondroplasia, a form of short-limbed dwarfism, Peter is the only one in his family with the condition.
Critics said that Peter, as a white actor, shouldn't have accepted the role of Villechaize, who they incorrectly believed to be Asian.
"In trying to be politically correct, they were politically wrong", he hit back.
"People who were trying to be politically correct judged Herve because of how he looked. Herve was not Filipino; he had a form of dwarfism that gave him a specific outward appearance. Hervé Villechaize was French".
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