Peter Dinklage says no to the fake nose in Cyrano

The musical drama Cyrano is the latest retelling of the classic French romance about a brilliant man who thinks himself too ugly for the woman he loves – all because of his big nose.

- Alison de Souza

It opens in Singapore cinemas today.

Previous film adaptations featured actors, such as Gerard Depardieu and Kevin Kline, wearing outsized prosthetic noses.

But Peter Dinklage, who plays Cyrano de Bergerac in this film, and his wife Erica Schmidt, who wrote it, were not fans of the fake nose.

Dinklage – who won four Emmys for the hit fantasy series Game Of Thrones (2011 to 2019) – had always felt it was a superficial element in the story, which is really about inner versus outer beauty and the ways people disguise themselves.

The fact that Dinklage, 52, is 1.35m tall and has a form of dwarfism, played into his decision as well.

He never cared for the original play, he admits.