{"id":31124,"date":"2009-02-11T12:13:14","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T17:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=31124"},"modified":"2009-02-11T12:13:14","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T17:13:14","slug":"christopher-lee-on-saruman-and-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/02\/11\/31124-christopher-lee-on-saruman-and-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Lee on Saruman and The Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/27681.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/27681.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Saruman\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28953 no-lazyload\" \/><\/a>Message board member diedye found this IGN interview in which Christopher Lee discusses his role as a Bond baddie in &#8220;Man with the Golden Gun,&#8221; and speculates about reprising the role of Saruman in the upcoming Hobbit films. This part, in particular, sounds promising:<\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">&#8220;<strong>IGN<\/strong>: Would you be willing to reprise the role?<br \/>\n<strong>Lee<\/strong>: In the spirit very much so. But I&#8217;ve reached an age now [86] where going to New Zealand again would be a very considerable effort. It would not be easy because it&#8217;s an exhausting journey. Even with a break I&#8217;m not sure I could do it.<br \/>\n<strong>IGN<\/strong>: If they could film your part in London, would you be interested?<br \/>\n<strong>Lee<\/strong>: Oh yes, of course. I&#8217;d be delighted.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/movies.ign.com\/articles\/952\/952905p1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Message board member diedye found this IGN interview in which Christopher Lee discusses his role as a Bond&#8230;<\/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_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":[114,42,4,10,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-casting","category-lee","category-hobbit-movie","category-lotr-cast-news","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-860","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31124","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}