{"id":108801,"date":"2019-09-04T15:44:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/04\/chris-odowd-on-playing-rosamund-pikes-husband-she-could-clearly-do-better\/"},"modified":"2019-09-04T15:44:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:44:38","slug":"chris-odowd-on-playing-rosamund-pikes-husband-she-could-clearly-do-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=108801","title":{"rendered":"Chris O&#039;Dowd on playing Rosamund Pike&#039;s husband: &#039;She could clearly do better!&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s cracked Hollywood. Now he\u2019s playing a manchild in a warring couples comedy by Nick Hornby. The IT Crowd favourite talks delta males \u2013 and \u2018depraved\u2019 British rulers\u2018There are very few alpha males,\u201d whispers Chris O\u2019Dowd, \u201cbut plenty of delta males. They\u2019re not very masculine, they\u2019re slightly ageing and they have lots of feelings of inadequacy. Delta males \u2013 it\u2019s a term that\u2019s very relevant to a lot of people in my life.\u201dIn State of the Union, the 39-year-old star of The IT Crowd and Bridesmaids plays just such a character. Tom is a London-based Irish music critic made redundant by the rise of social media. His last active engagement with the world was to get British citizenship in order to vote for Brexit and thereby annoy his wife\u2019s Guardian-reading remoaner friends. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2019\/sep\/04\/chris-o-dowd-interview-state-of-the-union-rosamund-pike-nick-hornby-stephen-frears\" target=\"_blank\">Chris O&#039;Dowd on playing Rosamund Pike&#039;s husband: &#039;She could clearly do better!&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s cracked Hollywood. Now he\u2019s playing a manchild in a warring couples comedy by Nick Hornby. The IT Crowd favourite talks delta males \u2013 and \u2018depraved\u2019 British rulers\u2018There are very few alpha males,\u201d whispers Chris O\u2019Dowd, \u201cbut plenty of delta males. They\u2019re not very masculine, they\u2019re slightly ageing and they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}