Orlando Bloom on Katy Perry, never saying 'no' and being open | Being | The Sunday Times Style

How do I look? All right? Are we rolling? My name is Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom. I was born in Canterbury, in Kent. The weather. Toad in the hole, or bangers and mash, or beans on toast. I mean, I'm simple at heart. Keep calm and carry on. London and Tokyo. I love the familiarity, I love the streets, I love the architecture. I moved to London when I was 16, so. A grafter. Optimistic. Empathetic. A little bit, try to be. Do you know what? I've been doing this for 25 years, literally. There is nothing that is not out there at this point. I'm an open book, so, and I wear my heart on my sleeve, pretty much. If anything, I'm trying to gather it all back, but it's too late. You know, when you're in your 20s and you get the kind of attention I did in my 20s, like, you're never schooled on what to say or what not to say, so there's nothing the world doesn't pretty much know. Enjoy the ride, man. Go for all of it, just never say no, just say yes to everything. No, no, mum, thanks. Can you believe my mum's here? Wake up, I've got lots of potions and pills that I take, not medication, but probably placebos that help me feel good about what I'm going to do with my day. Work out, go to work, shoot all day, eat 90% vegan, come home, do calls. Managing my life, which takes a village. An actor. I dabbled with the idea of thinking I could be a great stuntman, because I think I had, like, a very reckless childhood. I was very dangerous as a kid. And I used to watch that TV show with Lee Majors called The Fall Guy, which is a stunt show, it was on TV. And then I realised, I think quite young, that if I was an actor, I could be all of these characters and, you know, even do my own stunts, which kind of worked out pretty well, really. God, I sound like an arsehole. Good question. The Hustler has always been one of my favourite films that Paul Newman starred in, but also Chariots of Fire, great British feeling that you get from when you watch Chariots of Fire, gives me goosebumps. You know, I could say Legolas, because it was the first role and it was the most amazing kind of breakthrough. But I think Romeo, when I played Romeo on Broadway, and I was, like, in my mid-30s, I guess. So I wasn't the youngest and I wasn't the oldest, and it was a real challenge and it was really rewarding. That was probably one of my favourite characters to play. Like, I was introduced to Paul Newman at quite a young age, so he was in there, for sure. But, like, as a kid, I loved Indiana Jones and I also loved Superman, so make your pick, choose your pick, really. If I'm in LA, I can be quite put together or I can be really casual, but I'm quite eclectic, I would say, different and a bit unique. But then sometimes I'm just slouchy and comfortable. Cashmere. You can never have too much cashmere. Hello, are you ready? Yeah, I'm ready when you are. Night in or night out? Night in. Captain Jack or Will Turner? Will Turner? Come on! Be or snowboard? Snowboard. Nineties or noughties? Noughties. Friends or fleabag? Fleabag. Love or money? Oh, love. Act as a girl or teenage dream? Uh, I'd kiss the girl. Yes!