{"id":5455,"date":"2009-03-09T22:37:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T21:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slipserver.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/abrams-bana-became-character\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T08:13:51","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:13:51","slug":"abrams-bana-became-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/03\/abrams-bana-became-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Abrams: Bana Became Character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A shaved head and tattoos turned <b>Eric Bana<\/b> into a believable, menacing character.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ninemsn.com.au\/\">NineMSN<\/a>, <b>J.J. Abrams<\/b> was surprised at how Bana was transformed after a few cosmetic changes. &#8220;He had to shave his head, put on face tattoos, crazy ears and a huge wart,&#8221; said Abrams. &#8220;He just transformed. He did all these great things. To me, he became this character.&#8221;<!--more-->Others didn&#8217;t recognize Bana after the transformation. &#8220;Eric came up with this great voice and did all these things to a degree that there were a couple of people, directors, who saw the movie and afterward said &#8216;Who was that bad guy,'&#8221; explained Abrams. &#8220;When I told them it was Eric Bana, they were like &#8216;What?&#8217;. It was so funny seeing people who would know him not recognize him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read the article, head <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ninemsn.com.au\/entertainment\/764546\/bana-dons-face-tattoos-for-new-role\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shaved head and tattoos turned Eric Bana into a believable, menacing character. As reported&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[2407,2513,2514],"class_list":["post-5455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek-xi","tag-abrams","tag-bana","tag-nero"],"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\/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\/5455","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=5455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7086,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455\/revisions\/7086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}