HBO Films’ My Dinner with Hervé, starring Peter Dinklage and Jamie Dornan, debuts Oct. 20
HBO Films’ My Dinner with Hervé, starring Peter Dinklage and Jamie Dornan, will debut SATURDAY, OCT. 20 at 8:00 p.m. (ET/PT).
Inspired by a real story, My Dinner with Hervé explores the unlikely friendship between struggling journalist Danny Tate (Dornan) and Hervé Villechaize (Dinklage), the world’s most famous knife-wielding French dwarf actor, as it unfolds over one wild night in LA – an encounter that will have life-changing consequences for both.
The film Stars:
Mireille Enos as Hervé’s longtime girlfriend, Kathy Self; Harriet Walter as Danny’s newspaper editor, Fiona Baskin; Oona Chaplin as Danny’s girlfriend, Katie Nielson; with David Strathairn as Villechaize’s longtime agent, Marty Rothstein; and Andy García as Ricardo Montalbán, Villechaize’s Fantasy Island co-star.
Directed by Sacha Gervasi, with a screenplay by Gervasi and story by Gervasi & Sean Macaulay, the film is executive produced by Steven Zaillian, Richard Middleton, Ross Katz, Jessica de Rothschild, Sacha Gervasi and Peter Dinklage. Garrett Basch and David Ginsberg serve as co-executive producers.
About My Dinner with Hervé:
A look at the life of French actor Hervé Villechaize, co-star of the hit ’70s TV series Fantasy Island, who took his own life in 1993 at the age of 50.
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist (Jamie Dornan) and actor Hervé Villechaize (Peter Dinklage), resulting in life-changing consequences for both. Directed by Sacha Gervasi. Starring Peter Dinklage and Jamie Dornan. Premieres October 20 on HBO.
