The Brit played the Trojan Prince Paris in the historical film “Troy” rather reluctantly, as he says. One passage in the script in particular shocked him at the time.
According to his own words, Hollywood star Orlando Bloom struggled with his role in the historical film “Troy”. “I didn’t want to do the film,” the 47-year-old Brit told the US magazine Variety. Bloom made it clear that he found the 2004 film “great”. The only thing he didn’t like was the role of Paris he was offered: “It was completely against everything I felt in my being.”
In “Troy” the Brit plays the Trojan prince Paris, who inadvertently triggers the war for the city of Troy with a romance with Helena, the wife of the Spartan king. Director Wolfgang Petersen’s film also starred Brad Pitt as Achilles, while Diane Kruger had her breakthrough as Helena.
Bloom, who starred in the “Lord of the Rings” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” films before “Troy,” remembers a particularly painful moment in the script in which Paris threatens to lose in battle. “It said, ‘Paris crawls on the floor after being hit by someone, just holding on to his brother’s leg,'” Bloom said. This scene, which particularly frightened him, thrilled his agent at the time.
Source: Stern
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