{"id":28099,"date":"2007-11-29T21:31:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T02:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/11\/29\/28099-no-regrets-for-mckellen-in-turning-down-harry-potter\/"},"modified":"2007-11-29T21:31:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T02:31:54","slug":"no-regrets-for-mckellen-in-turning-down-harry-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/11\/29\/28099-no-regrets-for-mckellen-in-turning-down-harry-potter\/","title":{"rendered":"No Regrets For McKellen In Turning Down Harry Potter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-nex.theonering.net\/images\/scrapbook\/b\/12120_b.jpg\" alt=\"No Regrets For McKellen In Turning Down Harry Potter\" width=\"94\" height=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-left:10px;\" class=\"no-lazyload\"> Soon after actor Richard Harris died, there was a lot of talk that Ian McKellen &#8212; another premier British actor &#8212; could take over the role of Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films. For McKellen, however, it was never an option. &#8220;People say to me, &#8216;Don&#8217;t you wish you&#8217;d played Dumbledore? I say, &#8216;No!&#8217; I played Gandalf. The original.&#8221; McKellen shared those comments with Ireland Online about this character from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. But McKellen&#8217;s refusal to take on the role seemed to have more to do than simply what character from which franchise was superior. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syfyportal.com\/news424489.html\">No Regrets For McKellen In Turning Down Harry Potter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon after actor Richard Harris died, there was a lot of talk that Ian McKellen &#8212; another premier&#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":[49],"tags":[301,170,302],"class_list":["post-28099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mckellen","tag-dumbledore","tag-harry-potter","tag-richard-harris"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7jd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28099","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=28099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}