{"id":19853,"date":"2022-12-17T19:06:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T19:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/12\/17\/pinocchio-puppeteer-ronnie-le-drew-became-tom-hankss-double\/"},"modified":"2022-12-17T19:06:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T19:06:03","slug":"pinocchio-puppeteer-ronnie-le-drew-became-tom-hankss-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=19853","title":{"rendered":"Pinocchio: Puppeteer Ronnie Le Drew became Tom Hanks&#8217;s double"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A master of the marionette has revealed he was also Tom Hanks&#8217;s double in Disney&#8217;s new live action version of Pinocchio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Ronnie Le Drew is part of a six-strong cast at the Norwich Puppet Theatre (NPT), which has created a full Christmas production of Cinderella using long-string marionettes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-norfolk-63969116\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">for the first time in more than 30 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Le Drew, who has also operated Zippy from the children&#8217;s TV show Rainbow and worked on The Muppet Christmas Carol, said actor Hanks was &#8220;wonderful&#8221; and &#8220;very hands on&#8221; with learning how to operate Pinocchio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The puppet bridge at the NPT, where the puppeteers are hidden from the audience above the stage, is the only one of its kind in the UK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-norfolk-63987207?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A master of the marionette has revealed he was also Tom Hanks&#8217;s double in Disney&#8217;s new live action version of Pinocchio. Ronnie Le Drew is part of a six-strong &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}