{"id":5203,"date":"2004-01-21T15:49:40","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T21:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/01\/21\/the-importance-of-being-gollum\/"},"modified":"2004-01-21T15:49:40","modified_gmt":"2004-01-21T21:49:40","slug":"the-importance-of-being-gollum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/01\/21\/5203-the-importance-of-being-gollum\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of being Gollum"},"content":{"rendered":"

(CNN) — About three weeks’ work.<\/i> That’s what Andy Serkis’ agent told the actor in 1999 when he was first offered the role of Gollum in the “Lord of the Rings” films. “They want to see you for the voice for an animated character,” he was told. [More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(CNN) — About three weeks’ work. That’s what Andy Serkis’ agent told the actor in 1999 when he…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t