{"id":31417,"date":"2009-03-22T00:16:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T05:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=31417"},"modified":"2009-03-22T00:16:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T05:16:32","slug":"ian-mckellen-the-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/03\/22\/31417-ian-mckellen-the-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McKellen: The Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-28228 no-lazyload\" title=\"Ian McKellen As Gandalf\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/hobbit_gandalf.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"122\" \/>Ian McKellen has been thought of as one of the world&#8217;s great actors for more than half his life.\u00a0 But in the last decade, he has also transformed himself from a strict stage thespian &#8211; highly rated, seen by very few &#8211; into a big screen star.<\/p>\n<p>He combines high art and mass appeal once more next year when filming beings on <em>The Hobbit<\/em>, a fourth movie adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s books, in which he will again appear as the great wizard Gandalf.<\/p>\n<p>McKellen claims no great strategy for combining critical and commercial success.\u00a0 &#8220;How am I expected to make sense of a career which has basically been about me enjoying myself and hoping people would come to see me too?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of the article click on the link.\u00a0 <a title=\"McKellen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1886459-1,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Time<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian McKellen has been thought of as one of the world&#8217;s great actors for more than half his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mckellen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8aJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31417","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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}