{"id":58398,"date":"2012-07-08T21:10:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T02:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=58398"},"modified":"2012-07-08T21:10:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T02:10:23","slug":"benedict-cumberbatch-visits-the-zoo-for-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/07\/08\/58398-benedict-cumberbatch-visits-the-zoo-for-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Benedict Cumberbatch visits the zoo for inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">In an recent interview with\u00a0InStyle magazine, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/the-hobbit\/cast\/benedict-cumberbatch\/\">Benedict Cumberbatch<\/a><\/em> said he visited<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/07\/08\/58398-benedict-cumberbatch-visits-the-zoo-for-inspiration\/benedict-cumberbatchs-zoo-visits-for-hobbit-edit\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58412\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58412 no-lazyload\" title=\"Benedict Cumberbatch's Zoo Visits for Hobbit-edit\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Benedict-Cumberbatchs-Zoo-Visits-for-Hobbit-edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a> the London Zoo to study the reptiles in preparation for his role as <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/the-hobbit\/characters\/smaug\/\">Smaug the dragon<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an extrapolation of a performance into something other than an actor. But essentially, you&#8217;re still doing a scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Cumberbatch<\/em> who also stars in the up-coming <i>Star Trek 2<\/i> and plays Sherlock Holmes in <i>Sherlock<\/i> says that his acting parents helped him learn the importance of professionalism.<\/p>\n<p>In other Cumberbatch news, apparently he&#8217;s also landed a small guest spot on the Simpsons. Its been recorded, but no word yet on when it might air, or what the part involved.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/movies\/movie-news\/Benedict+Cumberbatch-246409.html\">The zoo visit<\/a>] | [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcamerica.com\/anglophenia\/2012\/07\/benedict-cumberbatch-is-headed-for-springfield\/\">The Simpson&#8217;s spot<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an recent interview with\u00a0InStyle magazine, Benedict Cumberbatch said he visited the London Zoo to study the reptiles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"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":[1506,114,499,7,1300,4,495,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benedict-cumberbatch","category-hobbit-casting","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-hobbit-book","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-miscellaneous","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-fbU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58398","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=58398"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58424,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58398\/revisions\/58424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}