{"id":727,"date":"2010-01-04T06:41:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T19:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ausxip.com\/video\/?p=727"},"modified":"2010-01-04T06:41:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T19:41:31","slug":"craig-parker-nz-screen-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/craig-parker-nz-screen-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Parker &#8211; NZ Screen Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Parker made his television debut in the 80s soap  Gloss and then went on to Shortland Street where he played a womanising social  worker. After checking out of the long-running soap, Parker played an elf in  Lord of the Rings, a doctor on Mercy Peak, a villain in Legend of the Seeker and  a diplomat in Diplomatic Immunity. Some of his other screen credits include  Hercules the Legendary Journeys, Xena and the soon to be released Spartacus.<\/p>\n<p>In this ScreenTalk interview, Parker discusses:<\/p>\n<p>* How terrifying Gloss was but how it taught him about TV<br \/>\n*  Playing annoying social worker Guy Warner on Shortland Street<br \/>\n* The fun  of Hercules and Xena<br \/>\n* Fighting with Lucy Lawless on set<br \/>\n* The  dangers of on-set catering on Mercy Peak<br \/>\n* An awkward sex scene with good  friend Robyn Malcolm<br \/>\n* The enormity of Lord of the Rings<br \/>\n* How he  loved making Diplomatic Immunity despite it not being a complete success<br \/>\n* Being part of the yet to be screened TV series Spartacus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Parker made his television debut in the 80s soap Gloss and then went on to Shortland Street where he played a womanising social worker. After checking out of the long-running soap, Parker played an elf in Lord of the Rings, a doctor on Mercy Peak, a villain in Legend of the Seeker and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[66,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}