{"id":115526,"date":"2016-02-03T14:56:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T14:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/03\/it-is-absolutely-true-that-when-rupert-came-in-to\/"},"modified":"2016-02-03T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T14:56:23","slug":"it-is-absolutely-true-that-when-rupert-came-in-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/03\/it-is-absolutely-true-that-when-rupert-came-in-to\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It is absolutely true that when Rupert came in to audition, he gave us a version of Lestrade we weren\u2019t expecting, which was a really good copper. A copper whom you believe could be the star of another series in which, presumably, he fails to solve crimes.\u201c You have to accommodate your casting. \u201cI think Sherlock and John are just a bit resentful because they know Lestrade is more handsome than them \u2013 Benedict and Martin certainly are!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Steven Moffat at SDCC 2015 when asked \u201cWas Lestrade written as more likeable in the series because that was best for the show, or because Rupert was so charming?\u201c via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.co.uk\/tv\/s129\/sherlock\/news\/a657441\/sherlock-everything-you-need-to-know-from-the-comic-con-panel-in-our-live-blog.html\" target=\"_blank\"><b>DigitalSpy<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He also described Rupert as \u201cthe most attractive man in the world\u201d \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is absolutely true that when Rupert came in to audition, he gave us a version of Lestrade we weren\u2019t expecting, which was a really good copper. A copper whom you believe could be the star of another series in which, presumably, he fails to solve crimes.\u201c You have to accommodate your casting. \u201cI think &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/03\/it-is-absolutely-true-that-when-rupert-came-in-to\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[168,508,15,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}