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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Peter Dinklage Took a Role to Impress His Son, and It Backfired Big Time · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest post Moms and dads
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  Speaker 1: jump at an opportunity to be seen as cool in
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of their kids, which actors often do by
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  Speaker 1: starring in a project one of their children is a
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  Speaker 1: huge fan of.
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  Speaker 2: But that ended up backfiring entirely for Peter Dinklage.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, his eight year old son is obsessed with like
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  Speaker 3: the dark and spooky stuff, and he actually loved Game
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  Speaker 3: of Thrones, which Peter starred in, because of that. So
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  Speaker 3: Peter immediately said yes when he got the chance to
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  Speaker 3: star on a show based on literally his favorite movie.
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  Speaker 4: Season two of Alien Earth, which is a spin off
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  Speaker 4: of the space horror franchise Alien And on a side note,
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  Speaker 4: this kid is seriously into some scary stuff for an
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  Speaker 4: eight year old.
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  Speaker 2: So Dinklage tells Variety he thought, naturally, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: be such a hero in my son's eyes. Well I
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  Speaker 2: was wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So he tells his son about it. He's all excited,
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  Speaker 3: and his son was mad. He was like, you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: mess up my favorite thing. The kid basically felt like
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  Speaker 3: it would take him out of the story, make it
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  Speaker 3: feel less real.
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  Speaker 2: Like a dose of reality. In his escape is, and
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  Speaker 2: thankfully his friend and Game of Thrones co start kid
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  Speaker 2: Harrington reminded Peter that will only last until you take
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  Speaker 2: him onto its set and he literally gets to walk
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  Speaker 2: around in his fantasy. Alien Earth returns to FX this
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  Speaker 2: fall that's direct from Hollywood