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 Orlando Bloom
Interview By: Christian Ghigliotty
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For Orlando Bloom, being a hero is becoming more than playing a role;
it’s a full-time job. But the twenty-seven year old doesn’t seem to mind
very much; on the set of the Ridley Scott helmed Kingdom of Heaven, he rescued a prairie dog from one of the movies expansive and meticulously
created sets. “I rescued him from the streets while on Kingdom of Heaven. He
was on location at the set where my character Balian goes to assume his
father’s land, and I saw him in the arms of this man.”
The rescuing of a helpless prairie dog may seem insignificant but the act is seemingly more symbolic than he would probably admit. In order for Bloom to fully become
the hero he plays in the movie he had to make a transition from his usually
charming, fresh-faced characters to one that translated to a strong male on
screen presence. “It was important to make that transition to man; it was
important for me to play, to make Balian a real man. And so I trained hard, lifted a lot of weights. I put on fifteen to twenty pounds by the end.” But with this transition comes baggage, as Bloom’s rising star has put him in the starring role of Scott’s $100 million dollar plus epic. Although rising to challenge may seem like a daunting task, especially with the magnitude and scale of the movie, the self-proclaimed “director’s actor” felt at ease throughout the entire process. “I was in the hands of Ridley Scott. I knew
I would be in safe hands and I knew the movie would have integrity and be
interesting and big and he would do a masterful job of making it.”
Great actors have been molded by their experiences with mastermind
directors. There’s no doubt that Bloom has been changed in some way through
the making of the movie but it seems that the decision to make the movie
spurts from some deep seated passion to grow both on screen and off. After
wrapping up production on Troy he read the script for Kingdom of Heaven and was hooked from the outset. “It would have been a great polar opposite to the Paris character or be it the fact that Balian is a reluctant hero. He’s
not like a Gladiator, like a Russell Crow type hero. This is a spaghetti
western, this is more like a Sergio Leoni film; that is what kind of hero
Balian is. He assumes a lot of responsibility he wasn’t ready for because all
he’s trying to do is find out the answers to some of the bigger questions in
life, which is, ‘Why would God allow this to happen to me and how do I cope
with this?’”
Why seems to be the ...
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