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 Orlando Bloom
Interview By: Michael Dance
Everybody knows Orlando Bloom from the Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean trilogies. Starring in those might be enough for some actors, but in his downtime, he's also managed to work with the likes of Cameron Crowe (Elizabethtown) and Ridley Scott - twice (Black Hawk Down and Kingdom of Heaven). You'd think he might like a break every now and again. Then again, maybe not. Now you can see him in the independent movie Haven, directed by newcomer Frank E. Flowers, who was only twenty-four when the film was shot. Oh, and Bloom is producing the movie as well. "The nature of an independent film like this, which I haven't really worked on before, was that it was like, we're here to make a movie, and we have this much time, and for me it was like two and a half, three weeks of shooting," Bloom says. "There wasn't a lot of scuba diving going on." How did he get involved in the project? "It was the timing of it all. Frankie and me were connected by my manager…she put us together. I had seen Frankie's short, called Swallow, a twenty minute short, which was a very emotionally impacting movie, fantastic, and I really like it. I read the script, and initially there really wasn't anything I could do in it. The character I was originally being asked to play I wasn't interested in. So I said I liked the script, and I thought the character of Shy, which was originally written as a young Caymanian boy, was cool, because of what happens to him." Bloom soon became impressed by his future director's versatility. "Frankie said well, give me 24 hours and I'll tweak the script, so he tweaked the script in 24 hours, and I'll tell you, he completely rewrote that character." He stops in order to clarify himself. "But not in order to create a star vehicle for an Orlando Bloom movie. Because I still think the movie holds very firm as an ensemble film." An ensemble film it is, with other leading roles going to the likes of Bill Paxton, Stephen Dillane, and Zoe Saldana as Andrea, Bloom's love interest. Bloom found that producing his first film allowed him to discover a lot about making a film that, as an actor, one never notices. "It's funny, when you see Andrea kick the side of that mini, in the movie, that little improvised moment cost us ten grand. As a producer, you know, somebody tells you that, and you go: what??" He laughs about it now. "As an actor you show up to work, you put your makeup on, you don't think about things like that. That means people aren't going to eat lunch tomorrow." In the movie, Bloom's character, Shy, begins a romance with Andrea that wreaks havoc ... |
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