{"id":48172,"date":"2011-09-13T20:42:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T01:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=48172"},"modified":"2011-09-13T20:42:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T01:42:44","slug":"new-casting-call-for-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/09\/13\/48172-new-casting-call-for-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"New casting call for The Hobbit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Ringer Spy Kookie sends us this tidbit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/regions\/north-otago\/177623\/call-hobbit-extras\">The Otago Daily News<\/a> is reporting that the The Hobbit team is on the lookout for extras again. This time, production company 3foot7 is advertising for 200 extras &#8212; to fill the roles of &#8220;townspeople&#8221; and elves &#8212; for filming the Twizel region of New Zealand in late November and December.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article, the requirement for &#8220;townspeople&#8221; (by which we extrapolate to mean the people of Laketown and the surrounding area) is for men and women aged between 30 and 80 years with interesting character faces &#8212; men with beards. &#8220;All shapes, sizes and ethnicities welcome,&#8221; the studio said. For elves: people aged between 17 and 35 with a height of more than 168cm.<\/p>\n<p>The casting calls will take place at the Wanaka St John training rooms on September 23; Twizel Events Centre and Tekapo Community Hall on September 24; and Oamaru Opera House Empire Room on September 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ringer Spy Kookie sends us this tidbit: The Otago Daily News is reporting that the The Hobbit team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[1546,14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casting-calls","category-events","category-hobbit-movie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-cwY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48172","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}