Peter Dinklage admits he had ‘concerns’ about joining Game Of Thrones.
Dinklage plays Tyrion Lannister, the brother of Jaime and Cersei Lannister, in the hit HBO show.
He finished filming the final season back in July and on Monday night won the Emmy Award for supporting actor in a drama for the role.
The show has been a huge hit for all the actors involved, but Dinklage admitted that he wasn’t sure about joining Game Of Thrones in the first place.
Speaking backstage at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, he said: ‘I had concerns about this genre, I wasn’t familiar with the books or the complexity of Tyrion before this because unfortunately before this character, many times people my size weren’t interesting enough for me to be interested in doing it.
‘I had done it one or two times before and it sort of didn’t you know, grab me but they relieved my concerns very quickly.’
Since wrapping up on set, Peter said he found it hard to say goodbye to a character he ‘adored’.
‘I had my last day on set in July, just over two months ago now and it was very sad.
‘This is not only a great TV show to be a part of, but it was an enormous family to be a part of.
‘I’m sure you’ve heard that before from actors but in this case I was far from home, I live in New York and we shot the show in Europe, so many times I had to stay there and couldn’t go home on the weekends and I really developed deep roots in the community of Ireland and some of the other countries we shot in.
‘It was definitely hard to say goodbye, because it wasn’t just saying goodbye to the show, I was saying goodbye to a life over there.’
Game Of Thrones season 8 is set to air in 2019.
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