{"id":1568,"date":"2008-04-09T17:49:51","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T16:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2010-11-29T21:25:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T21:25:33","slug":"interview-kevin-spacey-on-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/04\/09\/interview-kevin-spacey-on-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Kevin Spacey on 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-admin\/http\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000228\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1569\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"Kevin Spacey as Mickey Rosa in 21\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/kevin-spacey-in-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/kevin-spacey-in-21.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/kevin-spacey-in-21-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000228\/\"><strong>Kevin Spacey<\/strong><\/a> stars in and also produced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0478087\/\"><strong>21<\/strong><\/a>, which is the new film about a group of MIT students who use their math skills to count cards in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Spacey plays Mickey Rosa, the professor who tries to persuade Ben Campbell (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Sturgess\">Jim Sturgess<\/a>) to join his blackjack team.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the bestselling book &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bringing_Down_the_House_%28book%29\">Bringing Down the House<\/a>&#8216; by <a href=\"http:\/\/http\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Mezrich\">Ben Mezrich<\/a>, it is currently the number 1 film at the US box office.<\/p>\n<p>I recently spoke to him about the film and his work at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_Vic\">Old Vic Theatre<\/a> in London.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Kevin_Spacey_on_21.mp3]\n<p>Download\u00a0it as a podcast via iTunes by clicking the image below:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251424468\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/podcast\/itunes.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>21 <\/strong>opens in UK cinemas this week<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Kevin_Spacey_on_21.mp3\">Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000228\/\">Kevin Spacey<\/a> at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonypictures.com\/movies\/21\/\">Official site for 21<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www-tech.mit.edu\/V125\/N43\/43vegas.html\">The Tech at MIT on the students who inspired the film<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Spacey stars in and also produced 21, which is the new film about a group of MIT students who use their math skills to count cards in Las Vegas. Spacey plays Mickey Rosa, the professor who tries to persuade Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) to join his blackjack team. Based on the bestselling book &#8216;Bringing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}