{"id":560294,"date":"2026-05-01T09:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560294\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:34:13","slug":"james-nelson-joyce-put-foot-down-to-get-this-city-is-ours-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560294\/","title":{"rendered":"James Nelson-Joyce &#8216;put foot down&#8217; to get This City is Ours role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nelson-Joyce has been nominated for Best Actor in Bafta Television Awards 2026 &#8211; but the call did not at first register as good news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was 12 o&#8217;clock when they released the list of nominees and I had a few missed calls from my agent,&#8221; the actor said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was worried I was being dropped.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nelson-Joyce said when he was eventually told he had been nominated he thought it was an April Fools&#8217; joke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Filming has just finished for the second series of This City Is Ours. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When we knew we were getting a second season, it was like, all these people who we love, I know they&#8217;re getting employment for another six, seven months,&#8221; Nelson-Joyce said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s the kind of thing where I get the lift from.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nelson-Joyce has been nominated for Best Actor in Bafta Television Awards 2026 &#8211; but the call did not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-560294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}