While Peter Dinklage has recently come to star in both stage and screen adaptations of Cyrano de Bergerac, the actor freely admits that the original 1897 play penned by Edmond Rostand was not what drew him in (WATCH)
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, and notched a Golden Globe nomination for the latter, the actor freely admits that the original 1897 play penned by Edmond Rostand was not what drew him in. “It didn’t connect with me and who I am. At its time when Rostand wrote it about 120 years ago, I think it was irreverent and controversial and all of that. Theater was a very different thing back then, and I can imagine it being incredible,” he said recently in a conversation put on as part of Deadline’s Virtual Screening Series. “But for me, it just hasn’t aged the way it should—the way some of my other favorite writers have, like Chekov and Shakespeare.
The elements that sold Dinklage on the adaptations penned by his wife Erica Schmidt were twofold—the omission of the fake nose historically associated with his character, as well as indie rock band The National’s writing of original love songs, which would stand in for the play’s “long-winded” monologues. After Schmidt revampedJoe Wright directed the latest iteration offor MGM and United Artists Releasing, after developing it over the course of two or three years.
After starring opposite Bennett in the Goodspeed production, he would reprise his role in an Off-Broadway production at the Daryl Roth Theater, watching as Schmidt’s work evolved in moving from one stage to another, and ultimately, to the screen. “Theater is ever evolving, ever changing. We’re not the first production of; we’re certainly not going to be the last production,” said Dinklage. “The space that you’re acting in, performing in changes everything, and the audience.
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