{"id":2094,"date":"2016-12-14T15:26:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2016-12-14T15:26:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:26:48","slug":"rogue-ones-felicity-jones-says-female-action-heroes-are-now-the-norm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2016\/12\/14\/rogue-ones-felicity-jones-says-female-action-heroes-are-now-the-norm\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogue One&#8217;s Felicity Jones says female action heroes are now &#8216;the norm&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/12\/92962819_rogue3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2095\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/12\/92962819_rogue3.jpg\" alt=\"_92962819_rogue3\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/12\/92962819_rogue3.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/12\/92962819_rogue3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Rogue One actress Felicity Jones has said the number of lead roles for women in action films is a &#8220;a wonderful moment for cinema&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, who plays Jyn Erso in the new Star Wars spin-off, said &#8220;it means a huge amount&#8221; to be the first woman to have top billing in a Star Wars movie.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8220;It&#8217;s absolutely time that we had female leads and as many females leading films as we do men.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a very exciting time to be an actress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rogue One: A Star Wars Story had its UK premiere in London on Tuesday and is released around the world this week. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-38313369\">\u00a0More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rogue One actress Felicity Jones has said the number of lead roles for women in action films is a &#8220;a wonderful moment for cinema&#8221;. Jones, who plays Jyn Erso in the new Star Wars spin-off, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}