{"id":63920,"date":"2018-10-23T01:01:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T23:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/10\/23\/mary-beard-i-refuse-shows-that-feature-b-list-actors-in-costume\/"},"modified":"2018-10-23T01:01:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T23:01:02","slug":"mary-beard-i-refuse-shows-that-feature-b-list-actors-in-costume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=63920","title":{"rendered":"Mary Beard: I refuse shows that feature B-list actors in costume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cambridge classicist and TV presenter finds re-enactment scenes \u2018excruciating to watch\u2019Prof Mary Beard says historical reconstructions are \u201cexcruciating\u201d and she agrees to front TV documentaries only if there is a ban on anyone appearing in period costume.The TV presenter and historian said she would tell producers there must be \u201cno drama reconstructions in any programme made by me; no B-list actors dressed up in sheets, saying \u2018Do pass the grapes, Marcus.\u2019 Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/oct\/23\/refuse-tv-roles-re-enactment-mary-beard-excruciating\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Beard: I refuse shows that feature B-list actors in costume<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambridge classicist and TV presenter finds re-enactment scenes \u2018excruciating to watch\u2019Prof Mary Beard says historical reconstructions are \u201cexcruciating\u201d and she agrees to front TV documentaries only if there is a ban on anyone appearing in period costume.The TV presenter and historian said she would tell producers there must be \u201cno [&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-63920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63920","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=63920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}