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Why Orlando Bloom Doesn't Get As Much Work Anymore

posted 4 years ago by TMC-4 (20258)
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Around two decades ago, it looked like the film industry had discovered a surefire superstar of tomorrow in a young English actor named Orlando Bloom. Classically and boyishly handsome and charming, he showed versatility as a performer as well as the ability to hold his own against more experienced actors. It also didn't hurt that his breakthrough performances came in two of the most lucrative and adored movie franchises of all time: The Lord of the Rings, in which he portrayed the Elven Legolas, and Pirates of the Caribbean (as swooning blacksmith-turned-pirate Will Turner).

Bloom enjoyed a period of ultra-stardom in the early 2000s, perpetuated with appearances in plenty more Tolkien and pirate films, but over the last decade, that fame seems to have precipitously dropped off. While it once looked like a sure bet that Bloom would be a Hollywood long-hauler, he didn't have too many more high-profile roles. Here's why Orlando Bloom doesn't light up the inside of the multiplexes all that much these days.

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[–] AmeriGirl26 (14646) 4 years ago

As I recall, he now has a family, and he could easily retire on the millions he's gotten in royalties from being Legolas in LOTR and Will Turner in POTC :D

[–] TMC-4 (20258) 2 months ago

Why didn't Orlando Bloom's career take off?

https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-Orlando-Blooms-career-take-off/answer/Jon-Mixon-1

Some thoughts:

His solo efforts didn’t make money - If you look at the roles where Bloom was supposed to be the lead, the box office returns aren’t impressive. Why cast him if he isn’t going to make money?

He seems to be more comfortable in roles where he’s part of a larger cast - The Tolkien films and Pirates of the Caribbean have made up roughly 50% of his career. At this point, he’s a supporting actor, not a leading one, and your career may not take off in that manner.

While he was in the big money films, none of them were the MCU, Star Wars, Hunger Games, or Star Trek. - Basically Bloom was in high profile films, but he seems to have avoided some of the higher profile ones. That may not have helped his career.

He’s really kind of bland - Orlando Bloom interviews poorly on television and in podcasts so it’s easy to see where he may not appeal to many. That lack of charisma seems to be holding his career back.

He’s waited a little too long - It seems improbable, but Bloom will be fifty in three years. In Hollywood standards that means that he needed to be in a hit of his own in the late 1990s or early 2000s. That didn’t happen and now Bloom is approaching middle age without a significant solo career. Whether that was desire or just bad timing isn’t clear. What is clear is that Bloom is probably waited too long to become a success.

Orlando Bloom is an average actor who was fortunate enough to have character roles in two vastly successful film franchises.