{"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: “By the Sword”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hengist<\/b> writes: In a new book by Richard Cohen called “By the Sword”<\/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

“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’d give her one chance to shoot the scene on his return before giving it to the director for his approval. “When I came back I could see a gleam in my assistant’s eye: she did the best fight sequence I’ve seen a girl do!”<\/p>\n

Buy “By the Sword” on Amazon.uk Today!<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hengist writes: In a new book by Richard Cohen called “By the Sword” the author describes (amongst other…<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-spy-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t