Orlando Bloom on Choosing Roles: Bloom says he’s trying to turn down roles that don’t help him grow. “I admire other actors who just do stuff for the hell of it. Like I saw ‘Lords of Dogtown’ last night. I really loved it. I thought it was great. It was cool. It was gritty; it was punchy. I’ll tell you that, yeah, I’ve always tried to make choices that will help me grow as an actor and as a human being and everything else. It’s kind of what I’m living.
But I also wouldn’t restrict myself to just doing something crazy and silly just for the hell of it. What I’m saying is there’s something to learn from everything and I don’t want to be afraid to fail. If I start being afraid to fail, then I’m in serious trouble because I’m starting to just try and please people. I don’t want to ever feel like I’m doing stuff for the sake of trying to please other people because then I’m not taking care of me and that gets dangerous. But I do try to keep making choices that I think excite me.”
Orlando Bloom on “Haven:” “‘Haven’s’ a really cool movie that we’re trying to get to come out early next year,” said Bloom, adding, “It took a while because a smaller movie. Money doesn’t just fall off trees and it takes a lot longer. There were issues with some of that stuff, but I’m so proud of it as a film. I did it between ‘Troy’ and ‘Kingdom of Heaven.’ It’s this crazy, kooky little movie. I’m really, really proud of the work that I did in it, and that everyone did in it, and of the director who was a first time, a 24-year-old kid when he directed it. It’s just out there.
It’s an island movie. It’s set in the Cayman Islands and that’s a real eclectic group of people who live in the Cayman Islands. It’s American, it’s English, it’s French, it’s whatever. It’s got a piece of everything.
It’s not a romance. It’s sort of like a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ with a few other undercurrents, like the underbelly of an island where it’s a tax haven, so what does that bring to the table? There’s a huge culture. There’s race. And there’s romance in the sense that there’s that unrequited love and stuff. It’s pretty cool.”
