Orlando Bloom Opens Up About Pirates of The Caribbean

All right. Good to have you back. Thanks for having me back. Now, clearly women are crazy about you. Cameron Diaz was here last week, and she was talking about how Victoria's Secret voted her sexiest legs. And she said, when I was a kid, had I known that, that would have saved me so much heartache. Because she was a kid, she had scrawny lips. When you were younger, were you this popular with girls? Or did you have a totally different childhood? I was kind of chubby, quite chubby as a kid. You were? Really? Yeah, I was, yeah. I broke my leg when I was about nine, skiing. And so I had a cast from about nine to 10. It was like, for some reason, it was a year in cast. And it was at a time where I was, I used to be really sporty and stuff. So I just started eating chocolate, and I just got a bit tubby. I got so tubby that my mom, I remember saying, like thinking, like she took me to a doctor and said, you just can't stop eating chocolate. And he tried to hypnotize me and stuff to stop me eating chocolate. My mom kind of got into that hippie bit and stuff. And then once the cast came off, or the cost, as you call it, the cost came off. Once the cost come off, then you lost the weight again, and you were popular with girls? Yeah, I started playing sport again. I don't know if I was, yeah, I suppose, I don't know. And did you have, you had this? I grew up with my mom and my sister, so I was always comfortable with girls, you know? So I felt like, I just was quite. And were you, were you good in, why, what's that face? I don't know. Were you popular, like, were you good in school? Did you have good grades? Did you study hard? Yeah, I worked really hard at school. I mean, I was, I'm mildly dyslexic, not badly, but enough that it was a good excuse to pretend that, like, I couldn't do work at school and just be looking out the window. But actually, no, I worked really hard to get all my exams. I took extra classes for stuff, because I had a really great teacher who explained to me that it didn't make me stupid, you know? And I didn't ever feel stupid. It wasn't like, dyslexia isn't something that you have to kind of be afraid of, you know? And once I was really explained that, because I was smart, you know, and actually, my IQ was really high when I got tested, because they test your IQ, and then they test you for different things. And so I had extra classes for, like, to help me with it, and I did really well at school. It frustrates you, though. I think a lot of kids have ADD or dyslexia, and it does make you feel like you're not smart. It's really rude. It's got nothing to do with intelligence. No, no, no. Absolutely. And it's just, it's just, and thankfully, I found acting, and I was always really creative at school, and I was encouraged to embrace that side of it. I think creativity is massively important for kids. It is. You know, it's like, we send our kids to, you know, I mean, I don't have them yet, but I'm going to make sure that they have access to any kind of art classes, whatever it is, because it's, you know, you can go so far with that. It's so necessary. And they're trying to cut all that in school right now. They're trying to cut costs and so many, it's crazy. It's our, it's kids. And like you said, you said, your kids, you don't have kids right now, but soon you'll plan on having kids. How soon? Yeah. What, you want some? Sure. I kind of do, but I don't want to have one. But yeah, but if you want to have some and give it to me, I'll take some of your kids. They'll be pretty. They'll be real pretty kids. Beautiful blue eyes. Yeah. Blondes, maybe a bit of brunette. Oh, you're saying you want my eggs? No, you can't. What do you think to me? I'm joking. So I'd say that. I would be honored. You are, huh? Did you, and you just found this out. We told you backstage. He's the most Googled man. You are the most Googled man. You'd have like, if you Googled yourself right now, which. It's my mom. She's constantly doing it. Is it your mom doing it? You'd have like 3 million hits like just right now. Just, what do you think that is? I don't even really understand Googling, so I don't know. I'm still completely confused. Do you have a computer? You know, I bought one, but I haven't really used it. And it's pathetic, you know. I don't either. It's pathetic. I refuse to join the. I do too. I think it's horrible. I like writing, and I like calling people. What happened to writing letters? I mean, that's beautiful. It's kind of, there's something beautiful in getting letters, I think, receiving a letter. And there's something beautiful about actually coming out of a pen in your hand instead of touching things. Yeah, I agree. I was down in Antarctica recently, and I was at the last, I sent a bunch of postcards from the last post office at the bottom of the world, basically. And it's called Fort LaRoy, and there's a post box there. I mean, they're still waiting to receive the postcards, but you know. Right. That was six months ago. So tell me about that, Antarctica, because you were in, is that for environmental? Hang on, are we going to have kids? Is that, what did we get to with that? We decided that we may have kids. We're not sure yet. We're not sure. We're going to, we'll talk about it later after the show. I think that's where we left it. Sorry, yeah. But if you want to have my children, you can. Do you think I could? Is that how it works? I don't know how it works. We could look that up on the computer, except neither of us would be able to do that. We don't understand. With the computer stuff, and with my sexuality, I don't know how it works. But we'll figure it out, and you will have my children. Thanks. Yeah, I know. I can imagine. All right. All right, we have to take a break, and we'll figure this out. We'll be right back. It's a moody world, Sharna. Don't have her kids, but mine. Have my kids, not hers. All right, so. We're still trying to figure out how I'm actually going to have kids. I don't know yet, but someone is going to figure it out for us. Right, I know. It's the 21st century, for crying out loud. So what is the deal with, there's like a battle scene that took four months to shoot? We were shooting actually down in Palmdale for about four months in a giant warehouse, which was one big rain machine, actually. It was kind of hard. A lot of chafing. Wet costumes are very uncomfortable. I bet. It's a lot of work for a movie like that. It is actually, yeah. All right, so let's talk about, because you said you went to Antarctica, and I'm just, I can imagine how gorgeous and also educational that is. Yeah, it was massively. So look at you with penguins. Oh, look at that, yeah. Now how cold was it? It was very cold, about minus 20. Minus 20? Yeah. Wow. Yeah, and that was a bunch of, I went with, on a science exposition boat, but it turns out that it was basically a vacation boat for a bunch of guys for Good Reach Tires. So it was interesting. I had a great time, because I ended up climbing a mountain and snowboarding down it. I ended up scuba diving in Antarctica, which is kind of weird, in a dry suit, but it's freezing. You know, I mean, obviously, I just came out, my hands were frozen, it was just awful. But, hello? But that was... But it was an amazing experience. And you know, the thing about seeing and being in Antarctica is that it's these giant icebergs, which are three times bigger below the water than they are above. And they just feel like dinosaurs, you know? It's really tragic, because it feels so fragile. It just feels like, I'm seeing it now, and next year, you know it's going to be very different from the year after, ten years from now. Amazing rate. I mean, every year, it just goes down more and more and more. Yeah, yeah. But the thing about the environment that frustrates me is that it always seems like doom and gloom, you know? It's like, you can be somebody who drives an SUV, but you can still use energy efficient light bulbs, or make a difference in other areas, you know what I mean? It's like, it doesn't have to be all or nothing, because it's that thing of like, oh, I'm not environmentally friendly, because I drive an SUV, so therefore, because that makes me feel safe, so therefore, I'm just going to keep living how I am, and put my head in a box and forget about it. Actually, no. Just, okay, drive your SUV, maybe make a donation to like a wind farm or something, or offset it by doing that, or use energy efficient light bulbs, or you know. Plant trees. Plant trees, just, you know. It's like, it doesn't have to be all or nothing, and that's the thing that I keep coming back to, because, you know. It's hard to live all the way on the other side, but it really is. But I agree, little things that we do are going to make a huge difference. Actually, it will change, because it's going to have to. Yeah. Like you said, water is going to be a huge expense. It's going to be more expensive than oil, you know. I mean, it's going to be massive. Crazy to think that. Crazy, because these water bottles that we're just throwing away and drinking and acting like there's nothing wrong, one day we're going to look back on that. It's crazy. Use a filter, yeah. All right, well, I adore you, and we'll figure out how it's going to happen. Pirates of the Caribbean at World's End opens in a theater this Friday. We'll be right back, don't go away.