{"id":31237,"date":"2020-11-16T01:26:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T09:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=31237"},"modified":"2020-11-16T01:26:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T09:26:44","slug":"viggo-goes-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/11\/16\/viggo-goes-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Viggo Goes Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then there\u2019s <strong>Viggo Mortensen <\/strong>\u2013 who, by all accounts, is heterosexual.&nbsp; He\u2019s writing, directing, and starring in his next film.&nbsp; My God \u2013 he\u2019s like the male <strong>Streisand<\/strong>.&nbsp; All he has to do is sing the theme song wearing <em>Lee Press On Nails<\/em>!&nbsp; Anyway, <strong><em>Falling<\/em><\/strong> is about a homophobic and racist man suffering from dementia.&nbsp; Viggo plays the man\u2019s son \u2013 who happens to be a gay, married man.&nbsp; Mortensen claims that this is not \u201ca gimmick, anchor, or some trigger\u201d.&nbsp; In fact, he didn\u2019t originally write the role to be gay \u2013 but felt it made for a more compelling story.&nbsp; He added, \u201cI apologize to all the proctologists for casting <strong>David Cronenberg<\/strong>\u201d \u2013 who plays a proctologist in the film.&nbsp; I might add that I don\u2019t believe Viggo ever met any hobbits in real life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then there\u2019s Viggo Mortensen \u2013 who, by all accounts, is heterosexual.&nbsp; He\u2019s writing, directing, and starring in his next film.&nbsp; My God \u2013 he\u2019s like the male Streisand.&nbsp; All he has to do is sing the theme song wearing Lee Press On Nails!&nbsp; Anyway, Falling is about a homophobic and racist man suffering from dementia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31238,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31237\/revisions\/31238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}