{"id":76206,"date":"2015-03-01T18:07:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T23:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=76206"},"modified":"2015-03-01T18:07:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T23:07:17","slug":"aidan-turner-talks-about-poldark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2015\/03\/01\/76206-aidan-turner-talks-about-poldark\/","title":{"rendered":"Aidan Turner talks about Poldark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Aiden_new_3213459b-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Television Poldark\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-97306 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Aiden_new_3213459b-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Aiden_new_3213459b-600x375.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Aiden_new_3213459b.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> Aidan Turner is set to star in the BBC&#8217;s new adaptation of Poldark &#8212; the series of novels written by Winston Graham in the 1940s and 1950s. <\/p>\n<p>He recently spoke with The Telegraph about the role. He also dropped a few anecdotes about his time on The Hobbit, and revealed how a story about him helping a fan escape a mugger in Odessa is not actually true.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Ringer Taekotemple for the heads-up!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The day we meet, Aidan Turner has just got off a flight from America. \u201cWhen I woke up before we landed,\u201d he says, \u201cguess who had just been sleeping next to me the whole time? Jeremy Irons!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t just luvvie name-dropping. Telling the story, he visibly inflates with glee. Wide-eyed, tall, impossibly good-looking and with a mop of dark, curly hair scraped back from his face, the Irish actor fizzes with life. Despite recently starring in the Hobbit films and being poised to play the romantic lead in the BBC\u2019s swashbuckling new rendition of the Seventies TV series Poldark, Turner is easily starstruck.<\/p>\n<p>As well as playing the dwarf Kili in the three-part Hobbit juggernaut, Turner is already known to British TV viewers as Mitchell the vampire in BBC Three series Being Human, and as the libertine poet-painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 2009\u2019s Desperate Romantics. His roles have inspired a cultish following, and though he says he doesn\u2019t do social media himself, he\u2019s aware that there are swathes of the internet where \u201cAidan Turner Forever\u201d is a sacred mantra for fans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player lazyload\" width=\"1170\" height=\"659\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7A0U6kQNCN0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>There is a \u201cSexy Aidan\u201d creative writing group devoted to him on the microblogging site Tumblr, and stories across the web gushing about how nice he is. He is bemusedly grateful for his community of supporters, whom he calls \u201ca real posse\u201d, though he says one persistent rumour of his altruism, a story about him saving a fan from a mugger in Odessa, is \u201ccompletely fabricated\u201d. With the BBC\u2019s trailers for Poldark promising multiple scenes starring Turner in varying states of undress, often indulging in a brooding gaze or two, his devoted fan communities aren\u2019t likely to be going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Turner, 31, is the son of an electrician and an accountant and grew up near Dublin, born in the same house he subsequently lived in for 21 years. At 19, having never seen a play before, he decided to apply to the nearby Gaiety Acting School and, to his surprise, was given a place. The training was, he says, \u201celectrifying\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradio\/11437294\/Aidan-Turner-It-was-time-to-play-a-normal-human-being.html\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aidan Turner is set to star in the BBC&#8217;s new adaptation of Poldark &#8212; the series of novels&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":97239,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1294,4,148],"tags":[2765],"class_list":["post-76206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aidan-turner","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit","tag-poldark"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/AidanTurnerPoldark.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-jP8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76206","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=76206"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97324,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76206\/revisions\/97324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}