--- title: Peter Dinklage and Jamie Dornan Got Ready for 50 Shades of Grey description: Peter Dinklage helped his 'My Dinner with Hervé' co-star Jamie Dornan prep for '50 Shades of Grey' by reading Dakota Johnson's lines. canonical: https://time.com/5428530/peter-dinklage-jamie-dornan-50-shades-of-grey/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-18T16:26:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:32.365Z og:title: Tyrion Lannister and Christian Grey Are a Bromance Item og:description: Peter Dinklage helped Jamie Dornan prep for 50 Shades of Grey og:url: https://time.com/5428530/peter-dinklage-jamie-dornan-50-shades-of-grey/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaacb09081f18d458/69893cee86f68eef066ea72c/screen-shot-2018-10-18-at-12-19-17-pm.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Dinklage-Dornan-50-Shades og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tyrion Lannister and Christian Grey Are a Bromance Item twitter:description: Peter Dinklage helped Jamie Dornan prep for 50 Shades of Grey twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaacb09081f18d458/69893cee86f68eef066ea72c/screen-shot-2018-10-18-at-12-19-17-pm.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # You Don't Know How Bromantically Involved Tyrion Lannister and Christian Grey Are  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 18, 2018 4:26 PM UTC  NBC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 18, 2018 4:26 PM UTC As far as massively popular book-to-screen franchises go, [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/5389324/game-of-thrones-cast-season-8-hints/)and [_50 Shades of Grey_](http://time.com/3844294/50-shades-of-grey-alternate-ending/) really couldn’t be more different. But when [Jamie Dornan](http://time.com/4656417/ellen-degeneres-jamie-dornan-50-shades-parody/) needed to run lines for his role as Christian Grey, Peter Dinklage had no problem stepping into the Red Room—figuratively, that is. During an appearance on Wednesday’s episode of _The Late Show with Stephen Colbert_, Dinklage revealed that while filming his forthcoming movie _My Dinner with Hervé_, he helped his co-star Dornan rehearse for _50 Shades_ by reading Dakota Johnson’s part in the script. “I read some of the screenplay in our dressing room,” Dinklage told Colbert. “He had to do some reshoots for _50 Shades_ and I would help him out reading lines. I would read the Dakota Johnson parts. I was just helping a friend learn lines. I nailed it.” “I think that’s one of the lines,” Colbert quipped. 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