{"id":29448,"date":"2008-08-15T12:38:36","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T17:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=29448"},"modified":"2008-08-15T12:38:36","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T17:38:36","slug":"sir-ian-puts-the-bard-to-a-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/08\/15\/29448-sir-ian-puts-the-bard-to-a-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Ian puts The Bard to a beat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ian<\/a>From wharf.co.uk: He\u2019s been seen in Shakespeare, The Simpsons and the Shire \u2013 but now Sir Ian McKellen is branching out into garage music. The venerable actor recorded a Shakespearean sonnet onto a beat created by members of the Limehouse Youth Club. He was invited to the Limehouse Causeway club to launch an open art competition in association with the Narrow Street Fete. He said: \u201cWhat they did there was great. Shakespeare is all based on beat, rhythm and rhyme, and all those things that rappers deal with.”<\/p>\n

Having completed a sell-out run as King Lear, he\u2019s returning to the role of Gandalf in JRR Tolkien\u2019s The Hobbit, directed by Guillermo Del Toro. It is set to hit cinemas in 2010. He said: \u201cPeople are always telling me how much they loved the films. “Fortunately Tolkien wrote another book and Gandalf is in it. I\u2019m delighted.” Thanks to message board member diedye for finding the story. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From wharf.co.uk: He\u2019s been seen in Shakespeare, The Simpsons and the Shire \u2013 but now Sir Ian McKellen…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mckellen","category-lotr-cast-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t