Good lord. I've already read three accounts in which the wee actor in Sundance Festival opener In Bruges is cited as Peter Dinklage. Box Office Psychic praises the work of "diminutive Sundance legend Peter Dinklage" in the film. David D'Arcy refers to Dinklage in both his Green Cine Daily and Screen Daily reviews, effusing in the latter that Dinklage is "hilarious" and "cock sure."
One problem, fellas: Peter Dinklage ISN'T IN In Bruges. The dwarf, or midget, in the film, a dyspeptic sybarite named Jimmy, is in fact played by one Jordan Prentice, as a visit to the IMDB might have told you. Or....what the hell, your own eyes and/or ears might have told you, as Prentice actually doesn't look, or more significantly, talk like Dinklage, who has a deep, rich, Shakespearean style voice. Here are pictures of the two. 
That's Dinklage at far left, Prentice (who, if the IMDB is to be believed, was the guy inside that Howard the Duck suit back in 1986) in B&W. I bring this up only to highlight a very shameful form of bigotry: the idea that all sardonic dwarves/midgets look alike. Let's get sensitive, people. UPDATE: The Green Cine review's been fixed. I'd recommend Screen Daily and Box Office Psychics get cracking, before Dinklage and Prentiss team up, buy some machetes, etc.,etc.
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