you have people of a certain height such as gary coleman, they are few and far between... gary coleman, they are few and far between... peter dinklage. i would say that verne was... the person who lay the path for people like peter dinklage. he was very proud of that. he said he did not want to always play an elf or the tiny thing that little people always had. so when he got the part of mini—me in such a big movie he said he could show people that it was possible for someone like him, someone like verne who never thought he could do anything. who like to make people laugh, he liked to be an inspiration and in 2009 terry gilliam cast him in the imaginarium of doctor parnassus, a movie that was supposed to star heath ledger. and he was proud that in that film he was cast in a dramatic part instead of the funny part. as often happens in hollywood, these very talented people still struggle with daemons. you can imagine. you can imagine as a kid you must have been called a freak or treated badly. he had two normal siblings and his parents tried to treat him as normally as poss