{"id":50812,"date":"2011-12-01T08:14:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T13:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=50812"},"modified":"2011-12-01T08:14:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T13:14:27","slug":"nz-herald-actors-journey-to-middle-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/12\/01\/50812-nz-herald-actors-journey-to-middle-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ Herald: Actors journey to Middle-earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><em>The New Zealand Herald has written this<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/12\/01\/50812-nz-herald-actors-journey-to-middle-earth\/actors-journey-to-middle-earth\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50814\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-50814 no-lazyload\" title=\"Actors journey to Middle-earth\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Actors-journey-to-Middle-earth-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Actors-journey-to-Middle-earth-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Actors-journey-to-Middle-earth.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> nice piece on &#8216;The Hobbit&#8217; actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Mikael Persbrandt<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>They might be leading men in their respective countries but it&#8217;s not their famous faces which have got them heading to New Zealand to join the cast of The Hobbit.<\/p>\n<p>English actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/the-hobbit\/cast\/benedict-cumberbatch\" target=\"_blank\">Benedict Cumberbatch<\/a> &#8211; best known as the latest television incarnation of Sherlock Holmes &#8211; will be motion captured as dragon Smaug as well as delivering the voice of Necromancer (later known as Sauron in The Lord of the Rings trilogy). The other, Swedish star <a href=\"\/torwp\/the-hobbit\/cast\/mikael-persbrandt\" target=\"_blank\">Mikael Persbrandt<\/a>, is already in the South Island playing Beorn, a shapeshifting mountain man who is sometimes a bear. While The Lord of the Rings trilogy was a career launchpad for many actors, both Cumberbatch and Persbrandt come to The Hobbit with established profiles.<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/entertainment\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&amp;objectid=10769945&amp;ref=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand Herald has written this nice piece on &#8216;The Hobbit&#8217; actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Mikael Persbrandt:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":50814,"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":[1506,114,499,4,1387,495,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benedict-cumberbatch","category-hobbit-casting","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-hobbit-movie","category-mikael-persbrandt","category-miscellaneous","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Actors-journey-to-Middle-earth.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-ddy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50812","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\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}