Peter Dinklage Shoots Down 'Whitewashing' Outcry for Playing 'Fantasy Island' Actor Hervé Villechaize

Peter Dinklage is responding to criticism that his casting as “Fantasy Island” and “The Man With the Golden Gun” star Hervé Villechaize amounts to “whitewashing.” In an interview published by Entertainment Weekly Wednesday, Dinklage clarified that Villechaize is not of Filipino descent, as many of Dinklage’s critics assumed, and that those people who have used the phrase “whitewashing” are unfairly jumping to conclusions. “Personally, I would never do that, and I haven’t d...