{"id":96014,"date":"2017-03-29T23:04:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T03:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=96014"},"modified":"2017-03-29T23:04:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T03:04:38","slug":"book-angelina-jolie-was-drug-tested-for-tomb-raider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/29\/book-angelina-jolie-was-drug-tested-for-tomb-raider\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: Angelina Jolie was drug tested for &#8216;Tomb Raider&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_94225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94225\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/16649118_367211306983871_2669026261749355237_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94225\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/16649118_367211306983871_2669026261749355237_n.jpg\" alt=\"To help shed her early reputation, Angelina Jolie agreed to be drug tested during production of 2001's \u201cLara Croft: Tomb Raider,\u201d according to a new book. (Photo: Angelina Jolie\/Facebook)\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/16649118_367211306983871_2669026261749355237_n.jpg 360w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/16649118_367211306983871_2669026261749355237_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/16649118_367211306983871_2669026261749355237_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">To help shed her early reputation, Angelina Jolie agreed to be drug tested during production of 2001&#8217;s \u201cLara Croft: Tomb Raider,\u201d according to a new book. (Photo: Angelina Jolie\/Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 To help shed her early reputation, Angelina Jolie agreed to be drug tested during production of 2001&#8217;s \u201cLara Croft: Tomb Raider,\u201d according to a new book.<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday released an excerpt from an upcoming biography of the former studio head Sherry Lansing, \u201cLeading Lady.\u201d Lansing stepped down as Paramount Pictures chairman and chief executive in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>When casting the then 24-year-old Jolie for \u201cLara Croft,\u201d Lansing had concerns about Jolie&#8217;s stability. This was shortly before the actress wed Billy Bob Thornton.<\/p>\n<p>Then-Paramount production president John Goldwyn said the studio had Jolie undergo random drug tests. Director Simon West recounts that Jolie, eager for the part and to prove herself, said she would do anything \u2014 including daily drug tests \u2014 to \u201cprove that I&#8217;m worthy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 To help shed her early reputation, Angelina Jolie agreed to be drug tested during production of 2001&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":94225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[1525,17230],"class_list":["post-96014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-angelina-jolie","tag-tomb-raider","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}