{"id":2282756,"date":"2026-02-15T10:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2282756"},"modified":"2026-02-15T10:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:21:18","slug":"emma-laird-on-going-from-the-brutalist-to-the-bone-temple-and-picking-bold-bonkers-roles-i-dont-want-to-do-shakespeare-i-want-to-play-a-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/emma-laird-on-going-from-the-brutalist-to-the-bone-temple-and-picking-bold-bonkers-roles-i-dont-want-to-do-shakespeare-i-want-to-play-a-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Laird on Going From \u2018The Brutalist\u2019 to \u2018The Bone Temple\u2019 and Picking Bold, Bonkers Roles: \u2018I Don\u2019t Want to Do Shakespeare, I Want to Play a Fish\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm10058940\/\">Emma Laird<\/a> recalls a moment \u2014 not all that long ago \u2014 when she was stood on the rooftop of her apartment in Los Angeles, looking out across a picture-postcard sunset skyline and smoking a cigarette.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was so cinematic,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd I was crying my eyes out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Brit had been on the phone to her agent, who had informed her that, despite making it to the screen test stage for HBO\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt0397442\/\">Gossip Girl<\/a>\u201d reboot \u2014 the closest to any role she\u2019d got after months of grinding daily auditions \u2014 the part was going elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I just thought, that\u2019s it,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source m.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Laird recalls a moment \u2014 not all that long ago \u2014 when she was stood on the rooftop of her apartment in Los Angeles, looking out across a picture-postcard sunset skyline and smoking a cigarette. \u201cIt was so cinematic,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd I was crying my eyes out.\u201d The Brit had been on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2282757,"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-2282756","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\/02\/Emma-Laird-on-Going-From-\u2018The-Brutalist-to-\u2018The-Bone.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282756","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=2282756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282758,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282756\/revisions\/2282758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2282757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}