{"id":134701,"date":"2020-03-04T01:01:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T00:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/04\/joanna-lumley-pays-tribute-to-method-acting-forerunner-ellen-terry\/"},"modified":"2020-03-04T01:01:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T00:01:26","slug":"joanna-lumley-pays-tribute-to-method-acting-forerunner-ellen-terry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=134701","title":{"rendered":"Joanna Lumley pays tribute to method acting forerunner Ellen Terry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Absolutely Fabulous star shocked young people have never heard of \u2018cavalier\u2019 Victorian actorShe was a superstar in her day: mobbed by fans, paid a fortune and one of the finest stage performers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries with a technique that was a forerunner to method acting. But mention the name Ellen Terry to young actors and they\u2019ll look at you with a blank expression, Joanna Lumley has said.\u201cYounger actors now don\u2019t even know who Peter O\u2019Toole is,\u201d Lumley said. \u201cI\u2019m absolutely shocked. They literally don\u2019t know who Christopher Lee is, they don\u2019t know who some of the giants of our day are. I get so \u2026 I have to hush my mouth. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2020\/mar\/04\/joanna-lumley-pays-tribute-to-method-acting-forerunner-ellen-terry\" target=\"_blank\">Joanna Lumley pays tribute to method acting forerunner Ellen Terry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absolutely Fabulous star shocked young people have never heard of \u2018cavalier\u2019 Victorian actorShe was a superstar in her day: mobbed by fans, paid a fortune and one of the finest stage performers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries with a technique that was a forerunner to method acting. [&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-134701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134701","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=134701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}