{"id":65074,"date":"2012-11-12T09:29:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T14:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=65074"},"modified":"2012-11-12T09:29:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T14:29:25","slug":"a-chat-with-martin-freeman-aka-bilbo-baggins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/11\/12\/65074-a-chat-with-martin-freeman-aka-bilbo-baggins\/","title":{"rendered":"A chat with Martin Freeman aka Bilbo Baggins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bilbo-martinfreeman-p.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bilbo-martinfreeman-p-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit Movie\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-46197 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bilbo-martinfreeman-p-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bilbo-martinfreeman-p.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a>Tom Cardy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\">Fairfax NZ News<\/a> chats exclusively with Martin Freeman about The Hobbit: <i>When I meet British actor Martin Freeman, it&#8217;s in a makeshift cafeteria next to a giant temporary sound stage Sir Peter Jackson is using in Upper Hutt that was once a car assembly plant.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman has a rare day off from filming &#8211; as he speaks Jackson is right next door shooting a scene with the 13 dwarfs whom Bilbo joins on their quest. But rather than not think about The Hobbit he&#8217;s more than happy to talk to talk to reporters for an hour, well beyond the time that was expected of him.<\/i><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><i>As the hobbit in The Hobbit, Freeman is the one that will carry the story along through three films over the next three years &#8211; like Elijah Wood as Frodo in The Lord of the Rings.<\/p>\n<p>The last time I saw Freeman in the flesh he was when he joined the 13 dwarfs, sans costumes, makeup and prosthetics, before filming began. Only this time there&#8217;s something now of a Bilbo aura about him that wasn&#8217;t there before. Freeman likes fashion and has garnered the nickname &#8221;the mobbit&#8221; on the set for his love of British Mod culture. So even though he&#8217;s in his own clothes, they seem cut in a way not unlike Bilbo, right down to a waist coat. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/entertainment\/film\/7928960\/Interview-with-the-Hobbit-himself\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full interview on Stuff.co.nz<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Cardy of Fairfax NZ News chats exclusively with Martin Freeman about The Hobbit: When I meet British&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":52696,"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":"A chat with Martin Freeman aka Bilbo Baggins! http:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-gVA","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":[4,1260,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-martin-freeman","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/thehobbit8.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-gVA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65074","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=65074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65076,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65074\/revisions\/65076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}