{"id":6202,"date":"2021-03-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/blog-conversation-with-michael-blake-acting-2001-and-shauna-thompson-acting-2018\/"},"modified":"2021-03-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T04:00:00","slug":"blog-conversation-with-michael-blake-acting-2001-and-shauna-thompson-acting-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/blog-conversation-with-michael-blake-acting-2001-and-shauna-thompson-acting-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation with Michael Blake (Acting 2001) and Shauna Thompson (Acting 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"o-section-gutenberg -classic o-text\">\n<div>&#8220;<em>When I&#8217;m auditioning for a part or reading for a part, how does it factor into the whole piece? Am I there just to spout some exposition or am I there to get the hero get to? If it&#8217;s not justifiable, then I&#8217;m not gonna do it.<\/em>&#8220;<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In celebration of <strong>#WorldTheatreDay<\/strong>, we are proud to share this interview with actors <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.ent-nts.ca\/en\/graduates-and-recent-cohorts\/biography\/2001\/blake\/michael\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Blake<\/a> (Acting 2001) and <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.ent-nts.ca\/en\/graduates-and-recent-cohorts\/biography\/2018\/thompson-4\/shauna\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shauna Thompson<\/a> (Acting 2018, Toronto), which took place back in February, during Black History Month.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oeNZ6QR5VxM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<em>When I&#8217;m auditioning for a part or reading for a part, how does it factor into the whole piece? Am I there just to spout some exposition or am I there to get the hero get to? If it&#8217;s not justifiable, then I&#8217;m not gonna do it.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ibpoc-matters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}