{"id":30928,"date":"2009-01-07T20:36:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T01:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=30928"},"modified":"2009-01-07T20:36:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T01:36:05","slug":"press-tour-king-lear-is-semi-nude-and-gandalf-may-be-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/01\/07\/30928-press-tour-king-lear-is-semi-nude-and-gandalf-may-be-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Tour: King Lear is semi-nude and Gandalf may be gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/ianmckellen.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ian McKellen\" width=\"92\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-28479 no-lazyload\" \/><strong>Daniel Fienberg<\/strong> sends this along: What better way to kick off this January&#8217;s Television Critics Association press tour than with Sir Ian McKellen discussing his upcoming Great Performances version of &#8220;King Lear,&#8221; which he acknowledges is generally a career-capping role for most Shakespearean actors. &#8220;If, like me, you&#8217;ve worked your way through Shakespeare as an actor, waiting up there is King Lear and beyond him a shadowy Prospero maybe or a Falstaff,&#8221; says McKellen, who admits to being terrified of Falstaff. McKellen adds, &#8220;It&#8217;s the challenge. It&#8217;s the expectation that it will complete your journey through Shakespeare.&#8221; Of course, no matter how much acclaim McKellen gets for his stage work, he knows that he&#8217;ll always be recognized in the street for something different. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitfix.com\/blogs\/2008-12-6-the-fien-print\/posts\/2009-1-7-press-tour-king-lear-is-semi-nude-and-gandalf-may-be-gay\">Press Tour: King Lear is semi-nude and Gandalf may be gay<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Fienberg sends this along: What better way to kick off this January&#8217;s Television Critics Association press tour&#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":[14,197,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-fans","category-mckellen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-82Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30928","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=30928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}