Why Orlando Bloom absolutely hated being a part of Brad Pitt starrer ‘Troy’

Orlando Bloom recalls blanking the entire 'Troy' film out of his mind. Said, "It was completely against everything I felt in my being." (Image via X)

‘Lord of the Rings’ actor Orlando Bloom recently revealed why he hated starring in the Greek epic ‘Troy’. The mythological film was directed by Wolfgang Peterson and the cast was led by Brad Pitt, along with Eric Band, Diane Kruger, Orlando Bloom, Rose Byrne, Brian Cox, and many more notable names.

The film centred around the Greek epic by Homer, ‘The Iliad’. It portrays the battle between the kingdoms of Troy and Sparta.

During an interview with Variety, Bloom forgot a line that his character in Troy, Trojan prince Paris, had said. He went on to reveal that he had blanked most of the movie out too.

“Oh my god, ‘Troy.’ Wow. I think I just blanked that movie out of my brain by the way. So many people love that movie, but for me playing that character was just like [slits throat]. Am I allowed to say all of these things? I didn’t want to do the movie. I didn’t want to play this character,” the actor said.

“The movie was great. It was Brad [Pitt]. It was Eric [Bana] and Peter O’Toole,” Bloom went on. “But how am I going to play this character? It was completely against everything I felt in my being. At one point it says Paris crawls along the floor having been beaten by somebody and holds his brother’s leg. I was like, ‘I’m not going to be able to do this.’ One of my agents at the time said, ‘But that’s the moment that will make it!’ And I completely fell for that line of a agent. I think that’s why I blanked that from my mind.”

The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ actor wasn’t the only one who was let down by the film. In 2019, Brad Pitt told the New York Times that he was “disappointed” by the film.

He said that the film “became a commercial kind of thing”. “Every shot was like, here’s the hero! There was no mystery,” he added. “So about that time I made a decision that I was only going to invest in quality stories, for lack of a better term. It was a distinct shift that led to the next decade of films.”