{"id":42026,"date":"2011-02-04T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=42026"},"modified":"2011-02-04T06:23:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T11:23:01","slug":"martin-freeman-daunted-by-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/02\/04\/42026-martin-freeman-daunted-by-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Freeman Daunted By &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-38388\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/09\/08\/38387-ew-exclusive-dont-count-freeman-out\/_hobbit_-casting_-martin-freeman-could-still-play-bilbo-baggins-ew-exclusive-ew-com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-38388 no-lazyload\" title=\"_Hobbit_ casting_ Martin Freeman could still play Bilbo Baggins (EW EXCLUSIVE) | EW.com\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Hobbit_-casting_-Martin-Freeman-could-still-play-Bilbo-Baggins-EW-EXCLUSIVE-EW.com_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a>Like the character Bilbo Baggins he&#8217;s going to portray in the upcoming &#8220;Hobbit&#8221; films,<strong> Martin Freeman<\/strong> is daunted but excited about the journey he&#8217;s about to embark upon.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ukpress\/article\/ALeqM5iW44KuZ8nyQTcuq5c9BYLaPjWOIQ?docId=N0537901296752708258A\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very daunting &#8211; the daunting part is leaving home&#8230; I&#8217;m a real homebody, even before we had children, I was a homebody, so with children it&#8217;s like aww&#8230; I&#8217;m very excited though,&#8221; he told Modcast host Eddie Piller.<\/p>\n<p>Martin initially turned down the role because of his commitments to the BBC detective drama.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had to turn it down because of being contractually obliged to do the second series of Sherlock for the BBC, which we are doing in the middle of this year,&#8221; he recalled.\u00a0&#8220;I turned it down with a very heavy heart because things like this don&#8217;t come your way very often. It&#8217;s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, as far as scale is concerned. It&#8217;s a huge, huge deal. But I was contracted to do Sherlock. I wanted to do both.\u00a0When I found out I couldn&#8217;t do both it was very sad. And then it was very flattering when Peter Jackson rearranged the filming around my availability.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the character Bilbo Baggins he&#8217;s going to portray in the upcoming &#8220;Hobbit&#8221; films, Martin Freeman is daunted&#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":[499,497,1300,4,1260,74,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-production-directors","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-martin-freeman","category-jackson","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-aVQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42026","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=42026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}