{"id":3430,"date":"2009-08-21T00:35:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T00:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=3430"},"modified":"2017-09-22T14:37:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T14:37:13","slug":"as-robb-stark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2009\/08\/21\/as-robb-stark\/","title":{"rendered":"As Robb Stark&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; another terrific young British actor, Richard Madden.<\/p>\n<p>Madden did some great readings as well, blowing the competition (some very good competition) out of the water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/00061pcp\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/00061pcp\" width=\"127\" height=\"170\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He has done a lot of stage work in England, including playing Romeo in a recent production of ROMEO AND JULIET in Leeds castle.  That was the clue I blew, when I talked about a player exclaiming about roses in a castle.  Of course, it is Juliet who exclaims that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, not Romeo.  Sorry about that.  I did get the &#8220;castle&#8221; part right.  Macbeth and Hamlet and many of the Bard&#8217;s history plays have scenes in castles, but ROMEO &#038; JULIET does not&#8230; but the particular production that Madden was in was staged in Leeds castle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/000621a2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s320x24096\" width=\"174\" height=\"240\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Madden has also been cited as one of Britian&#8217;s hot young actors by ESQUIRE, which became another clue.  He&#8217;s gotten some great reviews, and has a terrific look for Robb.  If we go three seasons, women will weep&#8230; (and so may I). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; another terrific young British actor, Richard Madden. Madden did some great readings as well, blowing the competition (some very good competition) out of the water. He has done a lot of stage work in England, including playing Romeo in a recent production of ROMEO AND JULIET in Leeds castle. That was the clue I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[256,15],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}