{"id":25692,"date":"2003-04-13T11:30:51","date_gmt":"2003-04-13T16:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/04\/13\/tv-watch-mckellen-on-parkinson-details-2\/"},"modified":"2003-04-13T11:30:51","modified_gmt":"2003-04-13T16:30:51","slug":"tv-watch-mckellen-on-parkinson-details-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/04\/13\/25692-tv-watch-mckellen-on-parkinson-details-2\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Watch: McKellen On &#8216;Parkinson&#8217; Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><b>Alex<\/b> writes:<\/p>\n<p>Just wanted to let you know what Sir Ian spoke of last night on Parkinson. I&#8217;m from the UK and watched the show intently, waiting for Ian to show (he was the last guest).  <\/p>\n<p>He and Parkinson spoke mainly of his new play (and very briedly of X-Men 2), but when there was mention of Lord of the Rings Ian spoke enthuisastically about &#8216;getting into character&#8217; and the huge amount of time spent making sure his performance was up to scratch.  <\/p>\n<p>He told us the fact that he hadn&#8217;t read the books before filming (and it&#8217;s not clear whether he ever has, since, either) but he was pleased that his performance was accepted by the fans of the books in general.  <\/p>\n<p>He also showed us his tattoo that the members of the cast all got done (the Elvish for &#8216;9&#8217;), his was on his right upper arm, but jokingly suggested Wood&#8217;s was &#8216;further down&#8217; toward his waist.  Highly entertaining man, as ever, and stole the show for me last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex writes: Just wanted to let you know what Sir Ian spoke of last night on Parkinson. I&#8217;m&#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":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-6Go","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25692","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=25692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}