“And count on my bow.” Those are the only words the elf Legolas addresses directly to Frodo Baggins during the nine hours of footage of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. A short speech, but enough for the archer to be a vital prop in saving Middle-earth and transforming his interpreter, an inexperienced twenty-something on camera, into a generational sex symbol and global icon. His performance was so meteoric that he was rightly considered the “Errol Flynn of our time”. The sky was the limit for an Orlando Bloom (Canterbury, age 46) who, however, never could or would live up to the expectations of a 21st century Hollywood standard who settled on his character and watched the headlines roll over him to the pages of the tabloids. Now, on the 20th anniversary of the premiere of the first part of Pirates of the Caribbean and The Return of the King, the undisputed pinnacle of his fame, the Brit returns to the screen, ready for his new work to commemorate all of them To refresh people who drank the morning glory to see the face of the actor who monopolized the billboard.
With an arduous mission to overtake Barbie on the left, who has been unbeatable in the race for the summer box office so far, the sports drama “Gran Turismo” comes to Spanish cinemas to the satisfaction of fans of the mythical video game and motorsport. Based on true events, the film tells the story of a teenager’s transition from console geek to pro pilot, with the character played by Bloom being the young man’s explorer and mentor in his transition from driving to driving. This is the performer’s first opportunity to take charge of a big-budget production since reprising his fifth role as Legolas in The Hobbit saga a decade ago. Typed or not, the truth is that his attempts to direct films far from big franchises met with the usual rejection of audiences and critics, and he himself decided to leave Hollywood to concentrate on his family life.
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“He was tired of seeing me. I was tired of seeing myself with all the hype that comes with these movies. And inevitably, I think, you end up burning for both yourself and the public,” he admitted in a 2020 interview with The Hollywood Reporter. After being married to famed Victoria’s Secret model Miranda Kerr and mother to his first child, 12-year-old Flynn, for three years, the Brit began dating pop star Katy Perry in 2016. “I always say that when he leaves.” He carries joie de vivre into a room. She exudes a very upbeat and positive vibe and as I’m a bit more prone to depression it’s good to be around her because it knocks me out of my head a bit,” the hit artist explained, as “I Kissed a girls”. . The couple welcomed a girl named Daisy in August 2020 and are still waiting for the right date to celebrate their wedding after the pandemic dashed their initial plans. Having grown up without a biological father close by, he has made it clear that being present in his offspring’s childhood is a much higher priority than his validity in the industry. Today, along with Perry, they make up one of the most psychic couples in the Los Angeles hills, and each of their sentimental adventures causes streams of ink to flow on society’s websites. The last? The abstinence pact they signed together has kept them away from alcohol for several months.
Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry at Wimbledon, in London on July 5, 2023. Karwai Tang (WireImage)
He’s a risk enthusiast – he’s about to premiere a documentary about extreme sports – a vegan advocate and environmental activist. Although born in Canterbury, the nucleus of the Church in England, he has practiced Buddhism since the age of 16. In statements to the Times, he acknowledged that he was only “half-present” in the Los Angeles hills early in his successful career and that he would never have survived in the industry without his belief: “Without the practice of Buddhism he would have.” can easily derail. But I changed the narrative in my head and now I feel like I can be the driver of my own train.” Appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 2014, he traveled to Ukraine last March to visit a reception center for Visiting refugee children and meeting with the country’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, where they discussed various humanitarian aid projects targeting childhood issues. At the meeting, he shared with the President a note written by his Buddhist mentor: “His victory would be the victory of humanism, his defeat the defeat of hope.” So you must win.
Orlando Bloom with Miranda Kerr when they were a couple, at the 2013 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in West Hollywood, California. Jon Kopaloff (FilmMagic)
Aside from starring in a handful of action movies aiming to liven up TV dinners, his most recent work is starring in the fantastic series Carnival Row. Canceled after Season 2, which debuted on Prime Video just a few months ago, the fiction has gone unnoticed throughout the series, showing the difficulties many of the movie mecca’s great icons face to find a place outside of the action -Finding millionaires from the franchises has sired them. Forbes magazine itself called Bloom the “first modern movie star” because he was golden in the role that made him famous but was commercially useless in almost every other job, and also suggested names like Chris Hemsworth or Chris Evans as potential victims of this syndrome. With an estimated net worth of €40 million, several memorable roles, a stable relationship and two children, it doesn’t seem like his fall from the Hollywood Olympus is keeping Orlando Bloom awake. He already warned him: “I see my career as a marathon, not a sprint.”