{"id":22516,"date":"2003-03-26T04:16:02","date_gmt":"2003-03-26T10:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/03\/26\/sean-astin-on-the-joan-and-melissa-show\/"},"modified":"2003-03-26T04:16:02","modified_gmt":"2003-03-26T10:16:02","slug":"sean-astin-on-the-joan-and-melissa-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/03\/26\/22516-sean-astin-on-the-joan-and-melissa-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Astin on the &#8216;Joan and Melissa Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Julie writes: &#8220;I too saw Sean&#8217;s visit with Joan and Melissa just before the Oscars &#8211; I caught it on tape and here&#8217;s the conversation:&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Melissa: &#8230;star of Lord of the Rings one, Lord of the Rings two, and Lord of the Rings three&#8230;it&#8217;s getting boring. <br \/>Sean: Is it? <br \/>Melissa: No, I&#8217;m just kidding.  But I do want to ask you, nominated for Best Picture, but not for Best Director.  How disappointing is that for the cast for Peter? <br \/>Sean: Ah, I don&#8217;t think any of the cast is focused at this moment on disappointment.  <br \/>Melissa: Right. <br \/>Sean: So, we&#8217;re proud of Peter&#8230;we&#8217;re proud of his work, we continue to honor him and pray that he is able to keep mustering the strength to deliver the third film, and we&#8217;re going to be going down to New Zealand to do a little bit more work on it in the coming days. <br \/>Melissa: Really.  <br \/>Sean: Yup. <br \/>Melissa: And did you realize when you signed on that this was such a labor-intensive project? <br \/>Sean: Yeah, I don&#8217;t think we had any illusions\/delusions&#8230;yeah, we knew what we were getting into.  I think&#8230;I mean on paper we knew what we were getting into.  You never know, until you actually experience something, exactly what it is. <br \/>Melissa: Tell me about it. <br \/>Joan: Did you enjoy New Zealand? <br \/>Sean: New Zealand is one of the most beautiful places on the face of the earth. <br \/>Joan: That&#8217;s not what I&#8217;m asking you. <br \/>Sean: Did I enjoy it?  Well, I was so fat that it was hard for me to enjoy myself all the time.  But I had my wife and my daughter with me, so experiencing New Zealand through their eyes and getting to work with really&#8230;yeah, I had a great time. <br \/>Melissa: Now, before we let you do what you..the reason why you came up here, and I&#8217;ll tell you two things&#8230;one is that I want you to show everybody your cuff links. <br \/>Sean: My cuff links. [shows them to the camera] <br \/>Melissa: Yup, check those out.  And tell us the significance. <br \/>Sean: Well, my friend Michael Mue [sp?] picked them out for me and they&#8230;I think they&#8217;re viking ships but I liked that&#8230;they made me think of the middle east when he showed them to me and so I thought that they would look good on my arm even though you can&#8217;t really see them&#8230;  [his jacket sleeve comes down over them]. <br \/>Melissa: Check out&#8230;just while we&#8217;ve got you here look at Salma Hayek [camera shows her arriving on the red carpet] in black and white this evening, look how beautiful she looks.  But more importantly, you came all the way over here from the red carpet to send a message to the troops. <br \/>Sean: um&#8230;all right&#8230;yeah&#8230; <br \/>Melissa: That&#8217;s what they&#8217;re telling me. <br \/>Sean: I think this is a great opportunity to communicate to the American men and women serving in uniform.  Before the conflict started I was praying for peace&#8230; <br \/>Joan: As we all were&#8230; <br \/>Sean: &#8230;every day on bended knee and now I&#8217;m praying for peace and victory&#8230; and I wish them all God-speed and a safe journey home&#8230;and we&#8217;re proud of you, we love you, we&#8217;re grateful to you, and you&#8217;re in our minds and hearts and spirits every second. <br \/>Joan: That&#8217;s lovely.  <br \/>Melissa: That is so nice.  A pleasure to see you as always&#8230;take care. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Julie for typing out this transcript!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie writes: &#8220;I too saw Sean&#8217;s visit with Joan and Melissa just before the Oscars &#8211; I caught&#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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22516","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-5Ra","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22516","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=22516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}