“Am I allowed to say all of these things?”
Am I allowed to say all of these things?
I didnt want to do the movie.
Orlando Bloom as Paris in ‘Troy’.Warner Brothers/courtesy Everett
I didnt want to play this character.
It was completely against everything I felt in my being.
I was like, Im not going to be able to do this, he recalled.
One of my agents at the time said, But thats the moment that will make it!
And I completely fell for that line of an agent.
I think thats why I blanked that from my mind.
Hes not the only one who doesnt look back at the film fondly.
Back in 2019, Pitt told theNew York Timesthat he was disappointed" by it too.
So I was put inTroy, Pitt said at the time.
I made my own mistakes in it.
He explained that the film became a commercial kind of thing along the way.
Every shot was like, heres the hero!
There was no mystery, he added.
It was a distinct shift that led to the next decade of films.
Watch Bloom reflect on Troy and his other films in the clip above.
