{"id":20452,"date":"2013-04-04T14:06:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T18:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20452"},"modified":"2013-04-04T14:06:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T18:06:46","slug":"thandie-newton-takes-lead-acting-role-in-rogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20452","title":{"rendered":"Thandie Newton Takes Lead Acting Role In \u2018Rogue\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA\u00a0 \u2014 <strong>Thandie Newton<\/strong> doesn\u2019t shy away from the idea that she might be a role model.<\/p>\n<p>As she takes on a leading television role, she hopes to empower women like the stars who have come before her \u2014 <strong>Kerry Washington<\/strong>, <strong>Regina King <\/strong>and <strong>Anika Noni Rose<\/strong> among them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have empowered many,\u201d said <strong>Newton<\/strong>, a racially mixed actress who is of British and Zimbabwean decent. \u201cEmpowerment anywhere leads to empowerment everywhere. The world is changing at a pace where it needs to be. That\u2019s how I feel, and I\u2019m proud to be a part of this movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old actress will star in the dramatic series, \u201c<em>Rogue,\u201d<\/em> which premieres Wednesday night on DirecTV\u2019s in-house channel Audience Network. It\u2019ll be DirecTV\u2019s first venture into original programming, and the third series to air on Audience along with<em> \u201cFriday Night Lights\u201d<\/em> and \u201c<em>Damages.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA\u00a0 \u2014 Thandie Newton doesn\u2019t shy away from the idea that she might be a role model. As she takes on a leading television role, she hopes to empower women like the stars who have come before her \u2014 Kerry Washington, Regina King and Anika Noni Rose among them. \u201cThey have empowered many,\u201d said Newton, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}