{"id":61474,"date":"2012-09-03T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=61474"},"modified":"2012-09-03T10:00:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T15:00:20","slug":"nesbitt-im-the-george-clooney-of-dwarves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/09\/03\/61474-nesbitt-im-the-george-clooney-of-dwarves\/","title":{"rendered":"Nesbitt: &#8220;I&#8217;m the George Clooney of dwarves&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bofur-jamesnesbitt-p-249x300.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" class=\"no-lazyload\"> Actor James Nesbitt (who plays the dwarf Bofur in the upcoming Hobbit films) appeared this morning on ITV&#8217;s breakfast program Daybreak.<\/p>\n<p>Oz website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.com.au\/movies\/news\/a403407\/the-hobbit-james-nesbitt-im-the-george-clooney-of-dwarves.html\" target=\"_blank\">digital spy<\/a> reports that he said of Bofur: &#8220;I&#8217;m sort of the thinking woman&#8217;s dwarf, the George Clooney of dwarves.&#8221; He added that Bofur is &#8220;considered to be the optimistic one who always sees the goodness in most people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Nesbitt will return to New Zealand in 2013 for extra filming. He said of the expansion of the films: &#8220;I think when Peter began to cut it, he thought, &#8216;There&#8217;s more in this than [we] thought&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He praised Sir Ian McKellen, and went on to say that &#8220;Martin Freeman as [Bilbo] is just a revelation&#8221;. UK people can probably view the clip on ITV <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/itvplayer\/video\/?Filter=daybreak\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. The rest of us are left out in the cold as usual because of licensing restrictions. Thanks to Ringer DanielLB for the heads-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor James Nesbitt (who plays the dwarf Bofur in the upcoming Hobbit films) appeared this morning on ITV&#8217;s&#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":[4,1320,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-james-nesbitt","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-fZw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61474","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=61474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61477,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61474\/revisions\/61477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}