{"id":37954,"date":"2010-08-20T10:49:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T15:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=37954"},"modified":"2010-08-20T10:50:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T15:50:09","slug":"billy-boyd-i-didnt-make-any-money-from-lord-of-the-rings-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/08\/20\/37954-billy-boyd-i-didnt-make-any-money-from-lord-of-the-rings-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Boyd: I didn&#8217;t make any money from Lord Of The Rings movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-28702\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/04\/21\/28697-update-on-the-busy-life-of-billy-boyd\/billyboyd4\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28702 no-lazyload\" title=\"Billy Boyd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/billyboyd4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>LORD Of The Rings star Billy Boyd has revealed he never made a penny from appearing in the blockbuster movie.<\/p>\n<p>The Scot played a hairy-footed hobbit in the Tolkien trilogy which smashed box office records around the world.<\/p>\n<p>But despite becoming a household name by appearing in the films, he says the role failed to boost his bank balance.<\/p>\n<p>Billy &#8211; who is rehearsing for his forthcoming role in The Proclaimers musical Sunshine On Leith &#8211; said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t have any money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were unknown actors &#8211; we did it for peanuts and for food.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/showbiz\/celebrity-news\/2010\/08\/20\/billy-noyd-i-didn-t-make-any-money-from-lord-of-the-rings-movies-86908-22500688\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read Full Article<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LORD Of The Rings star Billy Boyd has revealed he never made a penny from appearing in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[39,10,5,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boyd","category-lotr-cast-news","category-lotr-movies","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-9Sa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37954","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}