{"id":88464,"date":"2014-04-10T06:12:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T11:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=88464"},"modified":"2014-04-10T05:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T10:36:00","slug":"monaghan-rumoured-for-star-wars-ep-7-cameo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/04\/10\/88464-monaghan-rumoured-for-star-wars-ep-7-cameo\/","title":{"rendered":"Monaghan rumoured for Star Wars Ep 7 cameo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/monaghan-wild-things-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dominic Monaghan in Wild-Things\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-69940 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/monaghan-wild-things-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/monaghan-wild-things-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/monaghan-wild-things-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/monaghan-wild-things-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/monaghan-wild-things-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/monaghan-wild-things.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> A rumour is currently circulating that <i>The Lord of the Rings<\/i> and <i>Lost<\/i> star Dominic Monaghan may be in line for a cameo role in J.J. Abrams&#8217; Star Wars sequels.<\/p>\n<p>The story, which seems to have begun on Star Wars news-site YodasNews is that the 37-year-old will have a cameo as a Jedi &#8212; possibly in Episode 7.<br \/>\n <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Monaghan, who currently stars as host of the BBC series &#8220;Wild Things,&#8221; recently spoke about his desire to appear in the film &#8212; which might explain where all of these rumors started in the first place. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;We\u2019ve talked a few times about [a potential role],&#8221; he told DweebCast. &#8220;[Abrams] said \u2018We\u2019re putting together a cast of unknowns. We want to follow the \u201977 New Hope cast because obviously Harrison Ford wasn\u2019t well known at that point, Mark Hamill wasn\u2019t and Carrie Fisher wasn\u2019t either. What he said was, \u2018We don\u2019t want to fall into that mistake of people going, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s that guy from that thing!\u2019 and then you\u2019re completely out of the Star Wars universe.\u2019&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the only time Monaghan has discussed the idea of being in the Star Wars sequels: he spoke eagerly, if briefly, about the thought on one of our TORn Tuesday episodes early last year (skip to around 1 hr 17 mins in below).<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" data-src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lZQziBzl7SQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/lifestyle\/arts-culture\/blogs\/is-wild-things-host-dominic-monaghan-a-jedi-in-star-wars-7\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rumour is currently circulating that The Lord of the Rings and Lost star Dominic Monaghan may be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":68723,"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":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45,10],"tags":[962],"class_list":["post-88464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monaghan","category-lotr-cast-news","tag-star-wars"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DominicMonaghan_Spider_640x360.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-n0Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88464","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=88464"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88541,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88464\/revisions\/88541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}