{"id":22944,"date":"2001-05-24T15:51:43","date_gmt":"2001-05-24T20:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/05\/24\/sean-astin-loves-sam-and-lotr-2\/"},"modified":"2001-05-24T15:51:43","modified_gmt":"2001-05-24T20:51:43","slug":"sean-astin-loves-sam-and-lotr-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/05\/24\/22944-sean-astin-loves-sam-and-lotr-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Astin loves Sam and LOTR"},"content":{"rendered":"

As if we didn’t know that already, the guy BEGGED and PLEADED to get the role, and much to his credit he’s the only one I can see playing Sam, but this report from Damien in Philly really makes me happy. Sean Astin really LOVES everything to do with LOTR! He’s like a proud father! Check out this report:<\/p>\n

I ran into Sean Astin about ten minutes ago in an elevator in Philadelphia. I recognized him right off, though he seems to have dropped all the ‘Sam’ weight. I asked him how New Zealand was and he totally lit up and said he loved it. I congratulated him on the role and told him I was glad he got it, since Sam is my favorite character in the story. He was so excited about the movies he was nearly shaking, and he whipped out a little pewter figure of Sam holding a sword and showed it to me. He also showed me the tattoo that the ‘Nine Walkers’ all had (I wanna see those tatoos guys! -Xo). It looked really cool and was written in elvish, but I didn’t ask him to translate. <\/p>\n

Sean’s a really nice guy, although he was a lot shorter than I thought, and he had that ‘I know something you don’t know’ look in his eyes when he walked about the film. Just thought I’d send this in as an interesting tidbit.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As if we didn’t know that already, the guy BEGGED and PLEADED to get the role, and much…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-22944","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-5Y4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22944","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}