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 The actor talks about boxoffice, rolling in a bone cage, and playing like Errol Flynn.When you say you were offered the opportunity to do that Errol Flynn moment, sliding down the sail, you couldn’t resist?
Orlando Bloom: But you have to do that ...
Tell me about it.
Orlando Bloom: Well, it was quite a complicated thing to do because I thought it would be really straight forward and you think, because I have done this a million times before, but you know there are things like, you have to stop and then master, you can't actually just step in and then you have to drag it around and there has to be enough gravity, so you are wired so you don't just fly off the sail. At the same time, the knife has to be sharp enough and the material has to be sort of in the right kind of condition, like taut enough, if you know what I mean. It is not as straightforward as it looks but it actually worked quite well I thought. They basically had me standing on that top on the sail but it was loaded, so I was like 20 feet from the ground instead of like 100, because we weren't on the boat and then I jumped from the mast on a wire and swung straight over the camera and then landed on the sail. It was very complicated but it was very good.
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Well, I am not letting you off, because that is a very brave thing to do! Why did you agree to do that, because you had an accident on a previous film -- do you think of those things at all?
Orlando Bloom: I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.
You have been doing really, really well the past years -- do you have time to appreciate what is going on or is there too much pressure?
Orlando Bloom: I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself. I had some of that recently, so it has been good. I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
Can you go anywhere and not be recognized anymore?
Orlando Bloom: No. I can do it some times - I mean you just do it, but to be honest, most people, when you do that aren't expecting you to do that so I normally don't - so if someone says to me, are you Orlando Bloom, I say “No, I get that all the time.”
What do you think of the evolution of Will Turner? Is he a stronger character now?
Orlando Bloom: I hope so, I mean I think so. It is hard to say because we are still finishing the third movie and I really can't remember what we have shot because we don't shoot in an order. It gets a bit darker and I think there is an element -- I mean it is not going to get like Darth Vader because this is a Disney movie -- but there is an element of like, you know questioning, what Will’s motives are and then it all kind of gets resolved in the end. So, yeah, I mean he still has some way to go, I think he is very much at the beginning on that growth journey. I think of the introduction of Bill Turner was great for my character, because it created a conflict for Will. He obviously wants to save Elizabeth Swann, he is still in love with her and wants to solidify that relationship and on the other hand he has got the father now. His father is reintroduced to his life and he is the living dead and he wants to sort of somehow save him from that and the conflict is, how can he achieve both.
Can you talk about shooting two and three back to back...
Orlando Bloom: I think Gore talked to Peter Jackson about the experience shooting two movies back to back. We all were on different corners in the Caribbean and it was beautiful and sometimes it was deathly boring and other times it was fantastically fun. It was a constantly changing experience but ultimately it was a fantastic one. The end feeling was just really, being lucky to be doing this and even if you are on an island where you can't get fresh food, the caterers were amazing and they really had great food. So you had only really one great meal at lunch but it was kind of mad, it was like -- a lot of games of dice, card games and reading.
Were you there when Hurricane Wilma tore through?
Orlando Bloom: Yeah, we were. We actually left. It was pretty tough on me. We got the tail end of it, we left two or three days before it hit and it was amazing because the locals were so calm. They were so relaxed about it. But coming back again and the house where I was staying had this really beautiful garden and when I came back, it was all gone. Then it was tragic because I think there was one life lost -- there was a baby left in a house that just had floated away -- it was awful. The family were in the house and the baby somehow managed to float away which sounds terrible but other then that -- we did a lot of fundraising and charity for the island like golf tournaments and things like that.
So you have taken up golf?
Orlando Bloom: No. Not me. I sponsored a whole or something.
Who would be the person you would like to have a Pirate adventure with?
Orlando Bloom: I think it would be the Cracken? That big John Squid - I love the big calamari...I love calamari all day long.
Do you feel this movie is better than the first?
Orlando Bloom: No, it is not. It is a great film and I think they are very different films and I think it is really important that when Hollywood makes those really big films that they are really good first of all. When they are spending a lot of money they should be really good and they should hopefully be movies that people go and see, you never know, I mean I really hope that it is a huge success, otherwise the audience loses faith in the industry. They lose faith going to the movies and then, where are we?
You are in a lot of costume pieces, do you have a lot of favorite period piece movies you would like to be in?
Orlando Bloom: I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable. No, to be honest...
I mean is it a question of the script?
Orlando Bloom: Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies -- there is a movie HAVEN and then there is a movie coming SEASONS OF DUST and I am looking for some smaller human sort of stories.
What is your dream character?
Orlando Bloom: There isn't one specific character where I say, “that is the one I would like to do.” I think I had a really fantastic time shooting Haven, it was spontaneous, exciting, and it was a great cast. I mean we shot like eight scenes in a day and the energy I really liked so I am looking to do more of those kind of movies.
Will you have kids in the fourth proposed Pirates movie?
Orlando Bloom: Well, I have to wait and see - good question.
You got a tattoo during Lord of the Rings, did you see yourself getting one for Pirates?
Orlando Bloom: Ha, ha...I doubt it. I think Johnny got a tattoo from this movie. The Captain Jack that he had, I think he got that. I think I could get some tattoos but I can't think of something I really like. I don't know, maybe a giant squid!
Shooting two back to back - being so long in the Caribbean - what did you miss the most?
Orlando Bloom: You mean what I missed the most about home? I missed my home – like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.
When Will sees Elizabeth and Jack Sparrow kissing, there was something behind your reaction -- you weren't just jealous...
Orlando Bloom: No, I think it is great, when I saw that in the script, the kiss just adds a little bit of Jack Sparrow attention to the whole thing, you never know what is going on with Jack. You know between Will and Elizabeth that the motives are pretty pure and it leads to a more kind of tangled story which I think will engage the audience more.
--- By Emmanuel Itier, Contributing Writer
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