It's hard to forget Orlando Bloom, when you have seen him as Legolas in "Lord Of The Rings". But he can do so much more than play blonde - in September he is out as a pirate and a highwayman...

Orlando loves...

His mom and dad - My dad is dead, but he was activist against apartheid in South Africa, and even got in jail because of it. I'm really proud of him. My mom used to let me and my sister compete for which one of us read aloud of the Bible best - it was then I got a mind to perform...

His sister - When we were young, we used to fight a lot, but when we grew older, we got really close. It was her that taught me to devote myself a little in clothes...

Hot girls - My mom had a language school when a was a kid, so I met all these hot, european girls. But the first I had sex with, was an english girl. I was 14. Another time, I was in love, I saved enough money to a airplane ticket from Ireland to London, so she could come and visit me. And guess what - she did...

Girlfriend - I'm really romantic. When I really love a girl, I do the crazyiest things for her. I think I'm a good boyfriend. But I'm really intense. When you're with me, it's 100%...

Friends - I love to hang out with my friends in big groups. But I'm probably the person who leads. I guess I always have been more like a leader than a person who just follow the rest...

Tattoos - I've got the elvish sign for "9" on my arm - all us from "Lord Of The Rings" got it, and then I have a sun just below my navel. But you have to be really serious about your tattoos - After all, they will always be there...

Stand By Me - It is a great movie from the 80's. It was one of the big reasons why I decided to become an actor...

Linda Evans - She was my first love. I always watched "Dollars" when I was a kid. My aunt worked as a producer at that time in New York and she got me a signed photo of her. It was so fantastic...

Fun - Actually, I would like to make a comedy once. I can be a real jerk, which people don't expect...

Music - I totally love music, especially Irish folk music, but the first concert I went to was Jamiroquai in Canterbury, where I'm born. And Michael Jacksons "Thriller" was the first album I bought...



Orlando hates...

Arrogance - I have surrounded myself with friends that would hit me if I tried to just play a little smart over my success...

Curiosity - Right now, there's a lot of people that has started to be absorbed in that I have a girlfriend. That, I think, is a little spooky...

Resentment - I hate to walk around and use time to regret something. You have some friends, who is by your side forever, and others who just aren't. And then there can happen so many things, both good and bad for you. I look really philosophical on it: Everything happens for a reason, and you just have to trust your destiny...

Lack of romance - I believe that whole our generation thinks too much on sex. Sometimes it feels like the romantic part of it all is fading out. And that makes me sad...

To dissapoint people - It's like, especially girls, they believe that I'm some kind of a blond god, and it's annoying to dissapoint them. Legolas hair is a wig, and his eyes contact lenses. And I only look like him when I'm wearing a lot of make-up...

Bad habits - I try to tidy up my bad habits. For example, I've become a vegetarian. I have also stopped smoking, but unfotunately I still bite my nails...

Money - Of course I don't hate money like that, but I don't like when money, for example controls the movies you're in. To be honest, if I just gets to kiss a girl somewhere in a movie, I gladly work for free...

School - I was much more creative than academic. In one of my grade books it says that "Orlando is a really nice boy, but he will rather look out of the window or play with the hamsters than look at what is going on at the blackboard"...

Sharks - Since I saw "Gape of Death" as a kid, I have had this terrible feeling that I will be eaten by a shark. When I surfed in New Zealand in the night, I saw a fin in the water, and I flipped totally out. And then it appeared later, that it just was a seal...

Playing smart - For the casting of "Lord Of The Rings" all the small people became hobbits, and all the tall became humans, and those, who looked weird became elves. How proud can you be of that?!



Backstage info...
During to filming of "Pirates of the Carribean" that comes to Denmark in September, Orlando was one of the only one, that didn't wear a wig. Instead he got hair extensions, and he had to sit nicely by the hairdresser for more than five hours...