{"id":22379,"date":"2004-01-25T02:15:52","date_gmt":"2004-01-25T08:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/01\/25\/liv-tyler-by-the-sword-2\/"},"modified":"2004-01-25T02:15:52","modified_gmt":"2004-01-25T08:15:52","slug":"liv-tyler-by-the-sword-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/01\/25\/22379-liv-tyler-by-the-sword-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Liv Tyler: &#8220;By the Sword&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><b>Hengist<\/b> writes: In a new book by Richard Cohen called <b><i><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0330482297\/qid%3D1075033219\/theoneringnet\" TARGET=NEW>&#8220;By the Sword&#8221;<\/a><\/b><\/i> the author describes (amongst other things) the history of screen swordplay. He obviously devotes some time to Bob Anderson and includes the following snipet about Liv Tyler, which says a lot about Bob Andersons techniques and about Liv Tyler.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He [Bob Anderson] was laughing at the fate of Liv Tyler in The Lord of the Rings. Cast as the young heroine, Arwen, she had bridled at the notion of rehearsing for a fencing scene. An angry Anderson told her he was going away for a while, leaving her with his assistant. He told her he&#8217;d give her one chance to shoot the scene on his return before giving it to the director for his approval. &#8220;When I came back I could see a gleam in my assistant&#8217;s eye: she did the best fight sequence I&#8217;ve seen a girl do!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><i><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0330482297\/qid%3D1075033219\/theoneringnet\" TARGET=NEW>Buy &#8220;By the Sword&#8221; on Amazon.uk Today!<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hengist writes: In a new book by Richard Cohen called &#8220;By the Sword&#8221; the author describes (amongst other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-spy-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-5OX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22379","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}