{"id":1433,"date":"2025-12-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2025-12-22T03:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:34:20","slug":"372-the-nutcracker-and-the-four-realms-w-natalie-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2025\/12\/22\/372-the-nutcracker-and-the-four-realms-w-natalie-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"372 &#8211; The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (w\/ Natalie Walker!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fourrealms-thob-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fourrealms-thob-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fourrealms-thob-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fourrealms-thob-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fourrealms-thob-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fourrealms-thob-1200x675.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fourrealms-thob.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Holidays, Garys! This week, we have some unfinished business with Keira Knightley and who better than our pal, actress Natalie Walker to join us for the holiday season. In 2018, Oscar pedigreed Lasse Hallstr\u00f6m and family friendly Joe Johnston adapted the classic Nutcracker story for the screen in a grab bag of Disney certified IP flare. Okay, sure, this isn&#8217;t the most THOB-y of titles, but it does give us an excuse to talk about Keira Knightley&#8217;s deranged (complimentary) performance and unpack just what the hell each of the titular four realms are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This episode, we finally get to that Keira Knightley Six (Seven&#8230; ugh!) Timers Quiz! We also talk about reshoots that led to Lasse Hallstr\u00f6m and Joe Johnston sharing directorial duties, the glorious dance sequences led by Misty Copeland, and Christmas movie Oscar nominees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topics also include Polish Oscar winning shorts, seeing the Nutcracker ballet as children, and Morgan Freeman with an eyepatch.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7974\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1433-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_372_The_Nutcracker_and_the_Four_Realms_-_with_Natalie_Walker.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_372_The_Nutcracker_and_the_Four_Realms_-_with_Natalie_Walker.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_372_The_Nutcracker_and_the_Four_Realms_-_with_Natalie_Walker.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_372_The_Nutcracker_and_the_Four_Realms_-_with_Natalie_Walker.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?powerpress_pinw=1433-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_372_The_Nutcracker_and_the_Four_Realms_-_with_Natalie_Walker.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"THOB_EP_372_The_Nutcracker_and_the_Four_Realms_-_with_Natalie_Walker.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Holidays, Garys! This week, we have some unfinished business with Keira Knightley and who better than our pal, actress Natalie Walker to join us for the holiday season. In 2018, Oscar pedigreed Lasse Hallstr\u00f6m and family friendly Joe Johnston adapted the classic Nutcracker story for the screen in a grab bag of Disney certified &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2025\/12\/22\/372-the-nutcracker-and-the-four-realms-w-natalie-walker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;372 &#8211; The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (w\/ Natalie Walker!)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,2054,772,872,516,90,2058,2055,2053,88,3,6,1837],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academy-awards","tag-christmas","tag-helen-mirren","tag-joe-johnston","tag-keira-knightley","tag-lasse-hallstrom","tag-mackenzie-foy","tag-matthew-macfadyen","tag-misty-copeland","tag-morgan-freeman","tag-movies","tag-oscars","tag-richard-e-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}