{"id":84255,"date":"2016-07-14T11:23:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T18:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=84255"},"modified":"2016-07-14T11:23:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T18:23:28","slug":"misty-copeland-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/misty-copeland-disney\/","title":{"rendered":"Misty Copeland Cast as Lead in Upcoming Disney Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mistyonpointe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Misty Copeland<\/a> has just been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2016\/07\/misty-copeland-the-nutcracker\" target=\"_blank\">cast as the prima ballerina<\/a> for Disney&#8217;s live-action <i>Nutcracker<\/i> film &#8212; and we think it&#8217;s a match made in heaven.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BHzrvf4B3y-\/\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019m thrilled to be a part of this amazing project with Disney and the wonderful Lasse Hallstrom. #TheNutcracker #MoreToCome<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A photo posted by Misty Copeland (@mistyonpointe) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-07-13T15:59:30+00:00\">Jul 13, 2016 at 8:59am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The dance prodigy shared the news on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BHzrvf4B3y-\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> noting how she&#8217;s &#8220;thrilled to be a part of this amazing project with Disney.&#8221; So are we, Misty. So are we.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u00a0will be based on Tchaikovsky&#8217;s ballet and E.T.A. Hoffmann&#8217;s <em>The Nutcracker and the Mouse King<\/em> in which a young girl&#8217;s favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes to life then takes her to a magical kingdom of dolls after defeating the evil Mouse King.\u00a0Misty will be the lead ballerina in the sole\u00a0dance sequence in the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Are you just as excited to see Misty Copeland as the lead ballerina? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"Misty Copeland has just been cast as the prima ballerina for Disney's live-action Nutcracker film ...","author":422344,"featured_media":84257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[261,273],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/14105040\/11062-11062-1-660x400.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/14105040\/11062-11062-1.jpg","formated_date":"July 14, 2016","category_name":"Entertainment","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113831\/entertainment-2.svg","author_name":"Monica Chang","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#24b513","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}