The Most Challenging Scene to Shoot Thus Far…: “That’s a good question. I think the wheel - going upside down and stuff and sword fighting in there. I was all harnessed so I couldn’t fall out, obviously. But it’s just like, because of gravity, you’re really reaching and at one point, the gravity takes you and you’re still reaching, but it’s pulling you the other way. That was really difficult. The birdcage was merely uncomfortable. Know what I mean? It was like running with that thing between your legs. You’re watching for the crown jewels the whole time.”
The wheel scene took eight days to shoot, mostly do to the changing weather, during which Bloom might have been uncomfortable but he never felt he was in danger. “It’s a controlled environment. It’s fun. It’s hard. Running backwards on top of a wheel was really difficult as it’s rolling down a hill - but [there’s] no danger.
What’s great about this film is that they did top the first. How do you top pirates going skeletal in the moonlight and coming out? That’s a hard thing to do. But I think the mythology of Davy Jones and the ocean, that tops it. Johnny Depp’s entrance in the first one…how do you top a ship that sinks down and then he steps onto the dock? How do you top that? It’s really hilarious the way he enters this movie. You know what I mean? It’s brilliant. It tops it in a different way. You can expect more as well in the third.”
Which is More Difficult – Wearing Soaking Wet Pirate Garb or the Suit of Armor for Kingdom of Heaven?: “Wet pirate gear, believe it or not. Being soaking wet is miserable, man. It doesn’t matter if you’re in the Caribbean or what you’re in. The rain that comes out of those rain machines is cold. It’s big drops and it’s cold in the Caribbean. If you’re soaking wet for like nine hours, it’s cold and miserable. (Laughing) That was hard work. Dry and hot in the desert in chain mail wasn’t comfortable, but I’d take that over soaking wet freezing my nuts off any day.”
Life After Pirates: Will Bloom actually take a break after completing Pirates of the Caribbean 3? “There’s a couple of things I’m looking at but one of them I’m not sure if I’m going to be doing it in the next couple of months, or at the end of Pirates 3,” answered Bloom. “It just depends on scheduling.”
The Upcoming Release – Finally – of Haven: Bloom said the long-delayed independent film, Haven, which he co-stars in with Bill Paxton and Stephen Dillane will finally hit theaters in September. Haven was completed back in early 2004 and has been pushed back time and again. Rubbing his hands together excitedly, Bloom was proud to announce it’ll finally be out on September 15, 2006. “Thank the Lord! I don’t know whether I have to go into it but Bob Yari wanted to distribute it himself so it crashed, and he wanted to distribute it himself so he set up a whole company to be able to distribute it himself. What can I tell you? We’re getting it done. It’s definitely Sept. 15. I can’t wait. I’m sure nobody else gives a s**t anymore but [I’m ready] just for it to get out there.”
Bloom joked, “I think it’s going to be much bigger than Pirates 2. It’s going to bust all box office records. You wait. For me, to get to do a human story amongst all these larger than life characters that I’ve been playing is awesome and that’s what really I want to be doing. What I’m looking for now is really human stories. I did a personal human story with Cameron Crowe, but it was…
I’m looking for projects like Haven. It was a first time director. It was the first movie he ever shot in the Cayman Islands by a young Cayman guy, 23 years old. He wrote and directed it. It was a really great experience. I shot more in one day than I have in six months on Pirates. Eight scenes a day, it was phenomenal and I just got to do it. And I want that. It gives a spontaneity that you can’t get when you’ve spent six hours in your trailer and then you walk on set and you do three minutes. It’s hard to have that spontaneity when you’re doing a big movie. I’m not saying you can’t get it, but it’s a challenge.”
Bloom continued. “Once in this movie, we would look at each other and go, ‘Am I a stuntman or an actor? I’ve forgotten.’ You kind of feel like that but then you see the end product and you go, ‘Great, there is that.’”
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