{"id":39720,"date":"2010-10-26T04:56:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T09:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=39720"},"modified":"2010-10-26T21:51:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T02:51:55","slug":"gdts-approval-of-martin-freeman-as-bilbo-baggins-is-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/10\/26\/39720-gdts-approval-of-martin-freeman-as-bilbo-baggins-is-100\/","title":{"rendered":"GDT&#8217;s Approval of Martin Freeman As Bilbo Baggins Is 100%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-30324\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/10\/20\/30314-del-toro-interview-part-2-this-is-the-hardest-movie-i%e2%80%99ll-probably-ever-do\/spirit\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30324 no-lazyload\" title=\"Guillermo Del Toro\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/spirit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/spirit.jpg 282w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/spirit-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s word on what once-upon-a-time-Hobbit-director <strong>Guillermo del Toro<\/strong> has to say about the casting choices revealed for <strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Hobbit<\/strong> films thus far:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have the perfect actor for every character in the movie, but I don&#8217;t feel morally correct to saying who now that I&#8217;m not directing. But [about Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] absolutely, 100%. I&#8217;m a huge fan of his. I love him in\u00a0<em>The Office<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Love Actually<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As far as his decision to leave the director&#8217;s chair of the two-part movie, GDT says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[It&#8217;s] a hard thing when you&#8217;ve spent two years on a movie and it&#8217;s going nowhere&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>News courtesy of Simon Reynolds over at\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/movies\/news\/a284219\/del-toro-backs-freeman-hobbit-casting.html\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Spy<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s word on what once-upon-a-time-Hobbit-director Guillermo del Toro has to say about the casting choices revealed for The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[435,1300,4,1260,496,148],"tags":[889,906],"class_list":["post-39720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guillermo-del-toro","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-martin-freeman","category-production","category-hobbit","tag-bilbo","tag-bilbo-baggins"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-akE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39720","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}