Orlando Bloom won’t return to play Legolas in Amazon’s Lord of the Rings sequence.
Orlando Bloom says he received’t return to play his Lord of the Rings character within the new Amazon sequence, based mostly on JRR Tolkien’s books.
The actor, who performed Legolas within the beloved movie franchise directed by Peter Jackson, mentioned he doesn’t know whether or not his character may match within the new world.
“I don’t understand how they’re going to method it. I haven’t had any conversations about this. I fell that I’ve executed every thing coming again to be on The Hobbit. It was a extremely great little tip from Peter that he wished me to come back into that and it made lots of sense.
“I like to think about myself as ageless however I don’t know the place I’d match into that world. When you’re saying as Legolas, they’ve in all probability received some 19-year-old child who is able to go,” Orlando Bloom mentioned.
He was talking throughout a panel for Carnival Row, his upcoming present with Amazon, at Tv Critics Affiliation summer season session on Saturday.
Based on Leisure Weekly, he additional recalled having a dialogue with Jackson on the potential reboot of the sequence years in the past and rejecting the thought of it.
“I bear in mind being on set with Peter, 20 years in the past now? And he was saying, ‘Wouldn’t it’s humorous to consider once they’ll need to do a remake of Lord of the Rings?
“We have been within the midst of this exceptional shoot and I mentioned, ‘No! That’s by no means going to occur.’ And right here I’m, working for Amazon they usually’re redoing it. It’s nice,” the actor mentioned.