{"id":26087,"date":"2002-11-23T01:30:05","date_gmt":"2002-11-23T07:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/11\/23\/karl-urban-hanning-it-up\/"},"modified":"2002-11-23T01:30:05","modified_gmt":"2002-11-23T07:30:05","slug":"karl-urban-hanning-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/11\/23\/26087-karl-urban-hanning-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Urban &#8212; Hanning It Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">This is from an article about Karl Urban (Eomer) in People Magazine. It&#8217;s on Page 145 of the December 2nd Issue that has Ben Affleck on the cover. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to TheBlueKat for typing it up for us to share with you all.<\/p>\n<p><b>Karl Urban<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Age:<\/b> 30<br \/><b>Height:<\/b> 6&#8217;1<br \/><b>Status:<\/b> He has a girlfriend and a 2-year old son<br \/><b>Residence:<\/b> A home in Auckland, New Zealand<br \/><b>Breakthrough role:<\/b> Eomer, a warrior in The Lord of the Rings:The Two Towers<\/p>\n<p><b>Background:<\/b> Growing up in Welllington, New Zealand, Urban got a taste of role-playing as Han Solo in neighborhood games of Star Wars: &#8220;I was 5, and I remember thinking, &#8220;Wow, this is exactly what I want to do.&#8221; By 1996 he had made a career of it, landing parts on two syndicated TV shows &#8211; Cupid in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Julius Ceasar on Xena: Warrior Princess. &#8220;Karl is ruggedly heroic yet imbues his roles with sensitivity,&#8221; says Rings director Peter Jackson, who cast Urban because &#8220;we needed someone who could hold their own against Ian McKellen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Winning Ways:<\/b> &#8220;Karl has a confident charm that allows him to be tousled without seeming unkempt,&#8221; says Melissa Blakem a writer on Hercules and Xena. The trick Urban points out, is &#8220;putting on the clothes I had on the day before &#8211; if they arn&#8217;t too dirty.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from an article about Karl Urban (Eomer) in People Magazine. It&#8217;s on Page 145 of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26087","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-6ML","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26087","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}