Yes, there are dragons, but “Game of Thrones” star Peter Dinklage wouldn’t characterize his popular HBO show as fantasy.
“It just seemed like something I had never come across before, especially in the fantasy genre, which I still refuse to call this, even though we have dragons,” the actor, who plays Tyrion Lannister, tells April’s Vanity Fair ahead of the Season 4 debut.
“It is just something that I was so eager to embrace.”
Inside, show creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss dish about their runaway hit, but the only real spoiler involves one of their biggest fans — President Obama.
“One perk of being the most powerful man in the world: Yes, you get to see episodes early,” Benioff and Weiss tell Vanity Fair in an e-mail regarding rumors that the president got advance DVDs of the show.
As for the series’ longevity, Weiss tells the magazine that they would like to wrap it up after seven or eight seasons.
“It doesn’t just keep on going because it can,” he says. “I think the desire to milk more out of it is what would eventually kill it, if we gave in to that.”