{"id":947,"date":"2010-07-20T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/07\/villainous-new-role-for-ian-mcshane.html"},"modified":"2010-07-20T08:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T15:19:00","slug":"villainous-new-role-for-ian-mcshane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/07\/villainous-new-role-for-ian-mcshane.html","title":{"rendered":"Villainous New Role for Ian McShane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT was a real blast to meet Ian McShane recently to talk about his acting career, growing up in Manchester the son of a Man U player, and his new role as a scheming 12th century bishop on the miniseries &#8220;The Pillars of the Earth.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-et-ian-mcshane-20100720,0,919836.story\">Here<\/a> is my interview for the LA Times.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/TEXMhyQDjvI\/AAAAAAAAA6k\/A6mToxrASfQ\/s1600\/IanMcShane06.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/TEXMhyQDjvI\/AAAAAAAAA6k\/A6mToxrASfQ\/s320\/IanMcShane06.jpg\" width=\"186\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Pillars does not compare to Deadwood, the program from which McShane is best known to Americans for his foul-mouthed saloon-keeper Al Swearengen, but it has its moments, and goes up on Starz Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT was a real blast to meet Ian McShane recently to talk about his acting career, growing up in Manchester the son of a Man U player, and his new role as a scheming 12th century bishop on the miniseries &#8220;The Pillars of the Earth.&#8221; Here is my interview for the LA Times. Pillars does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88,246,245,77],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-brit-culture","7":"category-deadwood","8":"category-ian-mcshane","9":"category-television","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}