{"id":225271,"date":"2014-02-27T15:43:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T15:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/02\/27\/i-dont-know-if-some-of-you-have-been-to-these\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T15:43:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T15:43:51","slug":"i-dont-know-if-some-of-you-have-been-to-these","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/02\/27\/i-dont-know-if-some-of-you-have-been-to-these\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t know if some of you have been to these live reads at LACMA, where a classic film is read live on stage by actors who just sit and read the script. We did one recently of American Pie, but we reversed the gender roles. All the women played men; all the men played women. And it was so fascinating to be a part of this because, as the women took on these central roles \u2014 they had all the good lines, they had all the good laughs, all the great moments \u2014 the men who joined us to sit on stage started squirming rather uncomfortably and got really bored because they weren\u2019t used to being the supporting cast.<\/p>\n<p>It was fascinating to feel their discomfort [and] to discuss it with them afterward, when they said, \u201cIt\u2019s boring to play the girl role!\u201d And I said, \u201cYeah. Yeah. You think? Welcome to our world!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><em>Olivia Wilde crushing it when she talks about women in Hollywood.<\/em> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/wildroses-peonies.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">wildroses-peonies<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know if some of you have been to these live reads at LACMA, where a classic film is read live on stage by actors who just sit and read the script. We did one recently of American Pie, but we reversed the gender roles. All the women played men; all the men played &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/02\/27\/i-dont-know-if-some-of-you-have-been-to-these\/\" 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":[208,4,3127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225271"}],"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=225271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}