Peter Dinklage Would Like to Delete President Trump from His Memory, Please

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The Daily Beast

The Golden Globe-winning ‘Game of Thrones’ star discusses his Sundance film ‘Rememory,’ the perils of technology, and the resistance.
Marlow Stern
01.26.17

“Hopefully there will be a Sundance next year,” Peter Dinklage grumbles.

I’m seated across from the award-winning Game of Thrones star in Park City, Utah, where the Sundance Film Festival is well underway. And while Dinklage is here to talk up his new film, Rememory, his attention can’t help but travel to the grim reality of life under President Donald Trump.

Days before our chat, reports surfaced that Trump, a Philistine whose favorite film is forty-five assorted minutes of Bloodsport, was planning to cut the National Endowment of the Arts. It’s a classic dictator move, stifling artistic freedom in the service of nationalism.

“It’s always the first to go, isn’t it?” says Dinklage, shaking his head. “Art, then education: the two most important things—and climate, of course. * But if anything, I think the voices will get a little louder. Unfortunately, sometimes it takes adversity to create something great.”

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* Yes, because what the world needs now is The Vagina Monologues part 43

 

 

................and with any luck I'll not hear of him...her...ze again