{"id":103,"date":"2007-09-17T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/09\/17\/martin-freeman-responds-to-hobbit-questions\/"},"modified":"2007-10-28T14:42:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T19:42:39","slug":"martin-freeman-responds-to-hobbit-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/09\/17\/103-martin-freeman-responds-to-hobbit-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Freeman Responds to Hobbit Questions!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">The MTV Movie Blog is back at it with more &#8216;Hobbit&#8217; rumors, this time picking up on a suggestion started right here at TheOneRing.net&#8217;s very own message boards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 10px 30px; font-family: times; font-size: 13px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moviesblog.mtv.com\/2007\/09\/17\/will-martin-freeman-hitch-a-ride-to-the-hobbit\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/martin_freeman_bilbo.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Freeman as Bilbo?\" style=\"margin-left: 10px\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"150\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"109\" class=\"no-lazyload\" \/><\/a>&#8220;&#8230;But one actor we wouldn&#8217;t want to see return is actually the actor when it comes to a Hobbit movie. While wizards and elves and part elf-men all age slowly (or not at all), hobbits get old quick, and we can&#8217;t imagine a 51-year-old Bilbo played by the same actor who brought him to life on his eleventy-first birthday.<\/p>\n<p>But if not Ian, than who? How about &#8220;The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy&#8221; star Martin Freeman? Internet scuttlebutt has him front and center as a replacement candidate, and no one can argue that he doesn&#8217;t looks the part. So when we caught up with &#8220;The Office&#8221; alum while he was promoting his new film &#8220;The Good Night,&#8221; we asked him to address the hubbub&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Granted Martin gets Hobbits and Goblins mixed up, we still think he looks pretty darn good for the role. Jump over the MTV for the Q\/A and then rant and rave on the TORn boards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moviesblog.mtv.com\/2007\/09\/17\/will-martin-freeman-hitch-a-ride-to-the-hobbit\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feature\">MTV Movie Blog<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=32858\" class=\"forum\">Discuss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MTV Movie Blog is back at it with more &#8216;Hobbit&#8217; rumors, this time picking up on a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[114,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-casting","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-1F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}