{"id":983,"date":"2006-11-02T15:53:28","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T21:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/11\/02\/five-minutes-with-andy-serkis\/"},"modified":"2006-11-02T15:53:28","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T21:53:28","slug":"five-minutes-with-andy-serkis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/11\/02\/983-five-minutes-with-andy-serkis\/","title":{"rendered":"Five minutes with: Andy Serkis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/frontAS.jpg\" ALIGN=LEFT class=\"no-lazyload\"> Get ready for the Andy Serkis Film Festival. The man who snatched the brass ring voicing Gollum in the &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; movies and the big ape in &#8220;King Kong&#8221; has three new flicks unreeling in theaters.<br \/><br clear=all>He&#8217;s Mr. Grin in &#8220;Alex Rider: Stormbreaker,&#8221; an assistant to scientist Nikola Tesla (David Bowie) in &#8220;The Prestige&#8221; and Spike, a henchman of the villainous Toad (Ian McKellen) in the animated &#8220;Flushed Away,&#8221; opening Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A collaboration between Aardman Animation (&#8220;Wallace &#038; Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit&#8221;) and DreamWorks (&#8220;Shrek&#8221;), &#8220;Flushed Away&#8221; follows the story of Roddy St. James (Hugh Jackman), a pampered pet mouse who accidentally takes a dip in the toilet only to be sucked down into a bustling underworld populated with street-smart rats (Serkis, Bill Nighy) and potential gal-pals (Kate Winslet). [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.courierpostonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20061102\/IMPULSE02\/611020313\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready for the Andy Serkis Film Festival. The man who snatched the brass ring voicing Gollum in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-fR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}