Synopsis
My Dinner with Hervé (2018) is Sacha Gervasi's drama, and you can watch online on iFILM. Across one long Los Angeles night, a burned-out journalist sits down to interview actor Hervé Villechaize, and neither man leaves the table the same.
Peter Dinklage plays the performer the world knew from two roles: the gun-toting henchman Nick Nack in the Bond film and the butler Tattoo on Fantasy Island. Jamie Dornan is the reporter handed a routine puff piece who instead gets confession, whiskey and the unguarded truth about what fame does to someone unready for it. The talk drifts from a restaurant out into the dark streets, and the journalist slowly realizes he is recording a last testament. The script draws on the real interviews Gervasi recorded shortly before Villechaize died in 1993.
This HBO film rides on two actors at a table rather than on plot. Dinklage, playing a fellow little-person actor for the first time, refuses pity and refuses grandstanding — that restraint is where the power comes from. It suits anyone who likes intimate biopics about the cost of celebrity. Stream My Dinner with Hervé (2018) online on iFILM.
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