{"id":82356,"date":"2013-11-14T11:19:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T16:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=82356"},"modified":"2013-11-14T11:19:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T16:19:14","slug":"sir-ian-mckellen-homeless-photo-causes-a-stir-all-over-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/11\/14\/82356-sir-ian-mckellen-homeless-photo-causes-a-stir-all-over-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Ian McKellen &#8220;homeless&#8221; photo causes a stir all over again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a class=\"thickbox\" id=\"set-post-thumbnail\" title=\"Set featured image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-admin\/media-upload.php?post_id=82356&amp;type=image&amp;TB_iframe=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Ian-McKellen-homeless-2-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Ian McKellen homeless 2 sm\" width=\"176\" height=\"218\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-82357 no-lazyload\" \/><\/a> Back in 2010, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/05\/12\/36606-is-sir-ian-mckellen-begging-for-money\/\" target=\"_blank\">a photo of Ian McKellen in his <i>Waiting for Godot<\/i> get-up and apparently being mistaken for a homeless person<\/a> as he sat on a bench outside a Melbourne theatre <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/australiaandthepacific\/australia\/7705972\/Sir-Ian-McKellen-mistaken-for-tramp-outside-theatre.html\">raised some eyebrows in the press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>McKellen was apparently sitting in his tramp costume taking a break when a passer-by gave him an Australian dollar.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as he prepares to reprise Samuel Beckett&#8217;s famous absurdist play on Broadway, the same photo is causing a stir all over again on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/11\/13\/ian-mckellen-tramp-photo_n_4266352.html\" target=\"_blank\">several<\/a> news sites &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.moviefone.com\/2013\/11\/13\/sir-ian-mckellens-godot-costume\/\" target=\"_blank\">with some seemingly unaware that the events in the photo occurred three years ago<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>McKellen said at the time: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;During his dress rehearsal of <em>Godot<\/em>, I crouched by the stage door of the Comedy Theatre, getting some air, my bowler hat at my feet (and) seeing an unkempt old man down on his luck, a passer-by said, &#8216;Need some help, brother?&#8217; and put a dollar in my hat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The dollar coin is now lodged between two drawing pins on the board above my dressing room mirror.\u00a0 My lucky talisman.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Waiting For Godot, co-starring Patrick Stewart, is currently previewing at Broadway&#8217;s Cort Theater and officially opens to audiences later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2010, a photo of Ian McKellen in his Waiting for Godot get-up and apparently being mistaken&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":82357,"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":[1300,49,148],"tags":[890],"class_list":["post-82356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-mckellen","category-hobbit","tag-sir-ian-mckellen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Ian-McKellen-homeless-2-sm.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-lqk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82356","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82363,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82356\/revisions\/82363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}