{"id":141868,"date":"2015-08-09T14:43:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T14:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/09\/vaginoir-when-i-started-as-an-actor-no-one\/"},"modified":"2018-09-06T13:08:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T13:08:23","slug":"vaginoir-when-i-started-as-an-actor-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/09\/vaginoir-when-i-started-as-an-actor-no-one\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-141868 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/09\/vaginoir-when-i-started-as-an-actor-no-one\/attachment\/141869\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nig83bxrWe1s1y3rgo3_r1_400-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nig83bxrWe1s1y3rgo3_r1_400-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nig83bxrWe1s1y3rgo3_r1_400-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/09\/vaginoir-when-i-started-as-an-actor-no-one\/attachment\/141870\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nig83bxrWe1s1y3rgo1_r2_400-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nig83bxrWe1s1y3rgo1_r2_400-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nig83bxrWe1s1y3rgo1_r2_400-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/09\/vaginoir-when-i-started-as-an-actor-no-one\/attachment\/141871\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nig83bxrWe1s1y3rgo2_r2_400-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nig83bxrWe1s1y3rgo2_r2_400-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nig83bxrWe1s1y3rgo2_r2_400-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/09\/vaginoir-when-i-started-as-an-actor-no-one\/attachment\/141872\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nig83bxrWe1s1y3rgo4_r2_400-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nig83bxrWe1s1y3rgo4_r2_400-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tumblr_nig83bxrWe1s1y3rgo4_r2_400-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/vaginoir.tumblr.com\/post\/108600681598\" target=\"_blank\">vaginoir<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cW<small>hen I started as an actor,\u00a0no one knew what to do with me. I was usually\u00a0maybe about 6 inches to a foot taller than\u00a0most of the actors, so I couldn\u2019t play <i>the\u00a0girlfriend<\/i>, I couldn\u2019t play <i>the wife<\/i>, I\u00a0was a little too overwhelming to be <i>the best\u00a0friend<\/i>, they didn\u2019t want me next to the\u00a0lead because I was usually a foot taller than\u00a0the lead\u2026 And then, God bless him, Rob Tapert,\u00a0who created Xena and the Hercules franchises said, <b>\u2018<i>I know exactly what to do with you! I\u2019m gonna\u00a0give you a sword! I\u2019m gonna make you as\u00a0scary as everybody thinks you are!<\/i>\u2019<\/b>\u201d &#8211; Gina Torres<\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>vaginoir: \u201cWhen I started as an actor,\u00a0no one knew what to do with me. I was usually\u00a0maybe about 6 inches to a foot taller than\u00a0most of the actors, so I couldn\u2019t play the\u00a0girlfriend, I couldn\u2019t play the wife, I\u00a0was a little too overwhelming to be the best\u00a0friend, they didn\u2019t want me next to the\u00a0lead because &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/09\/vaginoir-when-i-started-as-an-actor-no-one\/\" 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":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[11946,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141868"}],"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=141868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141873,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141868\/revisions\/141873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}