{"id":2530,"date":"2005-08-02T12:27:50","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T17:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2005\/08\/02\/connery-talks-gandalf\/"},"modified":"2005-08-02T12:27:50","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T17:27:50","slug":"connery-talks-gandalf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2005\/08\/02\/2530-connery-talks-gandalf\/","title":{"rendered":"Connery Talks Gandalf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><b>Chris<\/b> writes: In a recent interview with the New Zealand Herald, Sean Connery talked about how he turned down the role of Gandalf. <i>He turned down Gandalf in Peter Jackson&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings. &#8220;Yeah, well, I never understood it. I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don&#8217;t understand it.&#8221; He says he is very impressed with both Jackson &#8211; &#8220;he obviously understands nuts and bolts&#8221;, and so is obviously not one of the idiots <\/i>(in Hollywood)<i> &#8211; and the movie. &#8220;Whereas I would be interested in doing something that I didn&#8217;t fully understand, but not for 18 months.&#8221;<\/i> [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/index.cfm?ObjectID=10334891\" TARGET=ALL>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris writes: In a recent interview with the New Zealand Herald, Sean Connery talked about how he turned&#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_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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-EO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","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=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}