FLAUNTING his six-pack and flouncing around a beach in an odd mix of dressing gown and pants, Orlando Bloom doesn’t seem like he finds fame difficult.
With his Zoolander Blue Steel poses in a series of similarly strange outfits, he looks more like the catalogue man who got the cream.
Yet in an interview with Flaunt magazine to accompany the fashion shoot, the British actor — worth around £30million — offers a less-than-positive view of being a celeb that seems straight out of the luvvie handbook.
“It’s like getting into a burning vehicle, right?” Orlando explains.
Crazy arrow
“Like, OK, just make sure you got a safety team, because you’ve got to have a fire-retardant suit on, a helmet, the gloves, you’ve got to get into the suit and everyone’s going to go, ‘Oh my god, it’s on fire, look at it’.
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“Anyone who tells you different, I think, has maybe drunk the Kool-Aid, or bought the wrong ticket, because it’s a job.”
Orlando, who has starred in The Lord Of The Rings and Pirates Of The Caribbean film franchises, also credits Buddhism for helping him not to feel jealous of other stars in Tinseltown.
He says: “I think there’s a lot of competition in our industry, absolutely, but I’ve never been trying to compete with anyone other than myself.
“(Someone like) Tom Cruise is the head of this crazy arrow that is that sort of movie star idea, and that’s a life that I’m not sure what it must be like sometimes for his mind . . . I try to have understanding for everybody’s process, because mine has been really unique also.”
As for his relationship with pop star Katy Perry, he says: “There’s definitely never a dull moment.”
Which also applies to quirky fashion shoots like this one, presumably.
- Photographed by Kurt Iswarienko
- Styled by Monty Jackson at A-Frame Agency
- Groomer: Lori Guidroz
- Producer: Garett Quigley
- Coordinator: Ryan Wanat
- Digital Tech: John Schoenfeld
- Location: Casa del Mar Inn
- Flaunt Film: Yong Kim at Otto Motto