{"id":10360,"date":"2010-10-01T11:53:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T18:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10360"},"modified":"2010-10-01T11:53:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T18:53:14","slug":"urbans-new-zealand-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/10\/urbans-new-zealand-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban&#8217;s New Zealand Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Karl Urban<\/strong> finds his New Zealand roots to be an asset when it comes to growing as an actor.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Hollywood-based actors, those from Australia and New Zealand can&#8217;t be as picky in what projects they choose to work, but that works in their favor. &#8220;Why a lot of Australasian actors are finding success offshore is because the industries [at home] aren&#8217;t that big,&#8221; explained Urban, &#8220;but it forces you as an actor to accept work in all the mediums to make a living and it strengthens you as an artist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/UrbanSmall.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10361\" title=\"UrbanSmall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/UrbanSmall.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"108\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Plus &#8211; Urban feels that Hollywood actors focus on the wrong thing and lose focus. &#8220;Typically Hollywood actors get top-heavy very quickly,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They&#8217;re focusing all their energy on their managers and their stylists, their agents, their dieticians &#8211; all this focus on everything but the craft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Happy to commute from Auckland, Urban doesn&#8217;t even mind the necessary plane rides back and forth to Los Angeles. &#8220;It&#8217;s actually the easiest thing,&#8221; he said, &#8220;you hop on a plane, fall asleep and wake up in Los Angeles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Urban will be seen next in<em> Red<\/em>, due to release this month, as an assassin, followed by next year&#8217;s 3D thriller <em>Priest<\/em>. In addition, Urban will take on the title role in <em>Dredd<\/em> and will reprise his role of Dr. McCoy in 2012&#8217;s <em>Star Trek<\/em> sequel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Urban finds his New Zealand roots to be an asset when it comes to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2401],"tags":[3313,2487],"class_list":["post-10360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xi","tag-red","tag-urban"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10363,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360\/revisions\/10363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}