{"id":41904,"date":"2011-01-26T09:57:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T14:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=41904"},"modified":"2011-01-27T04:05:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T09:05:11","slug":"swedish-actor-michael-persbrandt-prepping-for-beorn-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/01\/26\/41904-swedish-actor-michael-persbrandt-prepping-for-beorn-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Actor Michael Persbrandt Prepping For Beorn Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mikaelpersbrandt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"190\" \/>Our Swedish message board member <strong>macfalk<\/strong> has alerted us to a story over at Swedish website <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftonbladet.se\/nojesbladet\/film\/article8465557.ab\" target=\"_blank\">N\u00f6jesbladet<em> <\/em><\/a><\/strong>(the same that had previously broken the news that <strong>Michael Persbrandt<\/strong> had been cast in the role of <strong>Beorn<\/strong>) that talks about the Swedish actor prepping for the upcoming <em>Hobbit<\/em> films.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the English translation of the relevant bits of the article courtesy of <em>macfalk<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This spring, Persbrandt has a super-tight schedule. February 15 is the day when filming begins for &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221; where he plays Beorn, a shape-shifter character on the good side.\u00a0According to <em>N\u00f6jesbladet&#8217;s<\/em> sources, Persbrandt is now working out twice a day to get in shape for the two films besides taking lessons to improve his English before debuting in Hollywood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Find the rest of the transcription over at our <a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=319280#319280\" target=\"_blank\">message boards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Michael Persbrandt and his character Beorn over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/the-hobbit\/\" target=\"_blank\">TORN&#8217;s exclusive Hobbit section<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Swedish message board member macfalk has alerted us to a story over at Swedish website N\u00f6jesbladet (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_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":[499,1300,4,1387,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-mikael-persbrandt","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-aTS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41904","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=41904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}