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\u201cAlex is obviously an interesting guy, and I think TV is mostly a necessary evil for him,\u201d Mansfield says. \u201cHe has said on several occasions that he would climb this building for nothing, even if no one was watching.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mansfield\u2019s Plimsoll Productions<\/a> is the lead producer of Skyscraper Live, Netflix\u2019s global broadcast of Honnold\u2019s daring attempt to climb one of Asia\u2019s tallest buildings without ropes (set to take place Saturday at 8 p.m. Et, after a one-day delay due to dangerous rain conditions). Plimsoll also produced Honnold\u2019s two most recent documentary projects \u2014 The Devil\u2019s Climb<\/a> and Arctic Ascent with Alex Honnold, both for National Geographic<\/a> \u2014 and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Veteran TV producer Grant Mansfield says any criticism of Alex Honnold\u2019s imminent attempt to free solo the Taipei 101 skyscraper for Netflix as a mere spectacle for spectacle\u2019s sake misunderstands the athlete at the center of the feat. \u201cAlex is obviously an interesting guy, and I think TV is mostly a necessary evil for him,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2249156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2249155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\u2018Skyscraper-Live-Producer-on-Why-Alex-Honnold-Is-Really-Climbing.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249157,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249155\/revisions\/2249157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2249156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}