{"id":59216,"date":"2012-07-16T03:17:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T08:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=59216"},"modified":"2012-07-16T03:20:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T08:20:26","slug":"richard-armitage-on-being-thorin-oakenshield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/07\/16\/59216-richard-armitage-on-being-thorin-oakenshield\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Armitage on being Thorin Oakenshield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net\/hprofile-ak-snc4\/188079_9439869235_1222453252_n.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" class=\"no-lazyload\"> Our own Cliff &#8220;Quickbeam&#8221; Broadway got the chance to have a few words with <b>Richard Armitage<\/b> in the Hall H press session. Armitage read The Hobbit as a young child of seven, and (among other things) spoke about the responsibility that comes with taking on a role in a universe with such depth that it feels like it could have existed.<\/p>\n<p><b>Choice quote:<\/b> &#8220;&#8230;and then actually putting the costume on and trying to make that character live and breath and walk and talk. It&#8217;s like you&#8217;re given this responsibility to every other person who&#8217;s read them, who&#8217;s reading the books for the first time or who has read them when they were seven. That&#8217;s the responsibility &#8212; and you have to own that for everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"510\" height=\"287\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iFO62_wcoec\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our own Cliff &#8220;Quickbeam&#8221; Broadway got the chance to have a few words with Richard Armitage in the&#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":[123,16,14,7,4,153,196,1292,148,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-comiccon","category-events-conventions","category-events","category-hobbit-book","category-hobbit-movie","category-tolkien-life","category-tolkien-languages","category-richard-armitage","category-hobbit","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-fp6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59216","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=59216"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59227,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59216\/revisions\/59227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}