{"id":122261,"date":"2015-12-19T17:19:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T17:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/19\/another-iconic-female-fighter-youve-played-of\/"},"modified":"2015-12-19T17:19:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T17:19:05","slug":"another-iconic-female-fighter-youve-played-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/19\/another-iconic-female-fighter-youve-played-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Another iconic female fighter you\u2019ve played, of course, is Xena. I understand that one of the reasons Xena became quite popular is because it pioneered a new age of female action heroes at the time (well before Buffy the Slayer). Was there a female heroine\/action figure that inspired you for the role?<br \/>\nActually, I played it like a man. I have five brothers, and I didn\u2019t really realize that I was a girl, that I was different, until I was eight. Also, I come from a very\u2026 not only egalitarian society but also a very egalitarian family. So it never occurred to me that I couldn\u2019t do anything that boys did. So playing Xena was entirely natural. In fact, I had to learn how to be feminine. Took me, like, 40 years. (Laughs)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.philstar.com\/366247\/show\/03b98593d7d97e04792a910df499dcf5\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/m.philstar.com\/366247\/show\/03b98593d7d97e04792a910df499dcf5\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Xena Warrior Princess \u00a0Lucy Lawless<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/prulock.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">prulock<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another iconic female fighter you\u2019ve played, of course, is Xena. I understand that one of the reasons Xena became quite popular is because it pioneered a new age of female action heroes at the time (well before Buffy the Slayer). Was there a female heroine\/action figure that inspired you for the role? Actually, I played &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/19\/another-iconic-female-fighter-youve-played-of\/\" 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":[14618,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122261"}],"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=122261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}