{"id":612942,"date":"2023-02-01T06:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T06:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=612942"},"modified":"2023-02-11T06:54:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T06:54:32","slug":"being-a-solo-parent-is-all-consuming-natascha-mcelhone-on-her-new-career-focus-and-that-controversial-relationship-in-the-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/being-a-solo-parent-is-all-consuming-natascha-mcelhone-on-her-new-career-focus-and-that-controversial-relationship-in-the-crown","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Being a solo parent is all-consuming&#8217;: Natascha McElhone on her new career focus and that controversial relationship in The Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Natascha McElhone got her big break as an actor, she very nearly blew it. She was fresh out of drama school and appearing in Richard III at the Open Air Theatre in London&#8217;s Regent&#8217;s Park. It was pouring with rain one evening and, though McElhone didn&#8217;t know it, the writer and director James Ivory , of Merchant Ivory fame, had come to watch the show. She had briefly met him a few weeks earlier while reading for a part in his 1996 film Surviving Picasso , a biopic of the artist told from the perspective of&nbsp;the painter Fran&#231;oise Gilot, who was his lover for a decade.&nbsp;&#8220;I had gone in, read a page of the script and was immediately ushered out, so I didn&#8217;t think anything of it,&#8221; she recalls. And so, on this rainy night, McElhone was having a post-show drink at the bar when &#8220;this older man with a debonair American accent came up and said hi. I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Natascha McElhone got her big break as an actor, she very nearly blew it. She was fresh out of drama school and appearing in&#160;Richard III&#160;at the Open Air Theatre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","category-movies","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}