As I arrive at the community centre where Orlando Bloom is rehearsing his first London play in a decade, he surprises me by suggesting we nip out to the cemetery over the road and do the interview there. And if I’m surprised, as I sit on a park bench next to Bloom and his beloved poodle, Mighty, think how some of the office workers and students enjoying their lunch on the grass around us must feel. Granted, I can’t lip-read. Yet I am imagining the stolen whispers going something like this: “Isn’t that unshaven bloke in the sweatshirt Orlando Bloom: Legolas from the Lord of the Rings films! Will Turner from the Pirates of the Caribbean films! And he is — or was — going
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Orlando Bloom on Katy Perry, middle age and his new West End play, Killer Joe
As the Lord of the Rings star returns to the theatre, he talks about his tough new role, how he was ‘hit sideways’ when he met Katy Perry — and that paddleboard snap
Orlando Bloom: “I’d say to my young self: just don’t take it too seriously, son”
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