{"id":31813,"date":"2019-09-15T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=31813"},"modified":"2019-09-15T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T14:45:10","slug":"metro-quadrophenia-cast-threatened-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/metro-quadrophenia-cast-threatened-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro: Quadrophenia Cast Threatened Strike!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2019\/09\/15\/quadrophenia-cast-threatened-strike-as-trevor-laird-couldnt-be-seen-with-white-girl-10741769\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2019\/09\/15\/quadrophenia-cast-threatened-strike-as-trevor-laird-couldnt-be-seen-with-white-girl-10741769\/ noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-31814 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/metro19a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"58\" \/><\/a><strong>Quadrophenia cast threatened strike as Trevor Laird \u2018couldn\u2019t be seen with white girl\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The cast of Quadrophenia are currently celebrating the cult film\u2019s 40th anniversary. But while the classic was progressive for its time, it turns out the movie could have been a whole lot more radical. Opening up on what went down behind the scenes, Trevor Laird, who played Ferdy, recalled the moment he was told he couldn\u2019t be seen with a white girl.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that actually happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 Toyah Willcox who was sat next to Trev and played Monkey in the 1979 movie, chirped up: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if you know, but we talked about going on strike because of that. All these walls were being knocked down, and here we were having to keep to a really bad tradition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at the <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2019\/09\/15\/quadrophenia-cast-threatened-strike-as-trevor-laird-couldnt-be-seen-with-white-girl-10741769\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Metro<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quadrophenia cast threatened strike as Trevor Laird \u2018couldn\u2019t be seen with white girl\u2019 The cast of Quadrophenia are currently celebrating the cult film\u2019s 40th anniversary. But while the classic was progressive for its time, it turns out the movie could have been a whole lot more radical. Opening up on what went down behind the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,27,25],"tags":[1428,2022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31815,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31813\/revisions\/31815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}