{"id":154802,"date":"2012-11-03T22:10:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T22:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2012\/11\/03\/brit-kung-fu-granny-set-to-make-hollywood-debut-at-79\/"},"modified":"2012-11-03T22:10:06","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T22:10:06","slug":"brit-kung-fu-granny-set-to-make-hollywood-debut-at-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2012\/11\/03\/brit-kung-fu-granny-set-to-make-hollywood-debut-at-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Brit Kung Fu granny set to make Hollywood debut at 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/AMBRKGCIKXVYRDSIWFSA.jpg>A 79-year-old woman from Somerset is set to play a deadly martial arts assassin in her Hollywood debut series.<\/p>\n<p>Retired midwife Kay D\u2019Arcy will star in the series as an absent-minded but merciless avenger with lethal weapons hidden in her hair bun, the Daily Express reported.<br \/>\nD\u2019Arcy landed the role in Agent 88 after showing off her tai chi skills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat impressed us is that Kay could go from being frail to being a totally empowered woman,\u201d producer Jan Utstein-O\u2019Neill said.<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019Arcy, who has five children and 11 grandchildren, went to Hollywood 10 years back to pursue her dream.<br \/>\nThe series that will be shown at first online, is described as a \u201cshoot \u2018em up kung fu romp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Series creator Digger T Mesch came up with the idea of the series after watching a YouTube video of British widow Ann Timson, who tackled sledgehammer-wielding robbers with her handbag last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 79-year-old woman from Somerset is set to play a deadly martial arts assassin in her Hollywood debut series. Retired midwife Kay D\u2019Arcy will star in the series as an absent-minded but merciless avenger with lethal weapons hidden in her hair bun, the Daily Express reported. D\u2019Arcy landed the role in Agent 88 after showing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}