{"id":235,"date":"2007-07-21T22:30:35","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T03:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/07\/21\/playing-king-lear-more-nerve-racking-than-gandalf\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T21:09:39","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T02:09:39","slug":"playing-king-lear-more-nerve-racking-than-gandalf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/07\/21\/235-playing-king-lear-more-nerve-racking-than-gandalf\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing King Lear more nerve-racking than Gandalf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/frontIM.jpg\" ALIGN=LEFT class=\"no-lazyload\"> SINGAPORE &#8212; Ian McKellen says playing the title character in William Shakespeare&#8217;s &#8220;King Lear&#8221; is more nerve-racking than his recent Hollywood film roles. Singapore is the first stop on the Royal Shakespeare Company&#8217;s international tour of &#8220;King Lear&#8221; and &#8220;The Seagull&#8221; by Anton Chekhov. &#8221; &#8216;King Lear,&#8217; I&#8217;ve been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime &#8230; to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that&#8217;s challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics,&#8221; the 68-year-old actor said Wednesday at a briefing. &#8220;Without doubt, Lear is the one I got most nervous about.&#8221; [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.heraldextra.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=229552&#038;Itemid=99999999\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE &#8212; Ian McKellen says playing the title character in William Shakespeare&#8217;s &#8220;King Lear&#8221; is more nerve-racking than&#8230;<\/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_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":[49,10,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mckellen","category-lotr-cast-news","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-3N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}