{"id":5424,"date":"2008-04-01T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/helen_mirren_traces_her_regal_russian_roots\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T17:22:00","slug":"helen_mirren_traces_her_regal_russian_roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=5424","title":{"rendered":"Helen Mirren Traces Her Regal Russian Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Helen Mirren has played countless royals \u201d\u201d Cleopatra, Queen Charlotte, Queen Elizabeth I and II.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no coincidence. Aristocracy is in the blood, she tells Renee Montagne. Even the working class women in her family were &#8220;queenly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her new memoir, In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures, outlines her aristocratic beginnings, from a time before the Mirren family was known as such, until she found a very special &#8220;religion&#8221; \u201d\u201d the theater.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how perfectly she may play a queen, however, she admits that she still gets intimidated when she gets a script and sees the &#8220;enormous number of lines&#8221; she has to learn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=89227743\">Listen to it all from NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Helen Mirren has played countless royals \u201d\u201d Cleopatra, Queen Charlotte, Queen Elizabeth I and II. It&#8217;s no coincidence. Aristocracy is in the blood, she tells Renee Montagne. Even the working class women in her family were &#8220;queenly.&#8221; Her new<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=5424\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,93,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-movies-television","category-theatredramaplays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}