“My body was shutting down.
It was a very real experience,” he tells EW.
Orlando Bloomwent to extreme lengths to get into fighting shape forThe Cut.
Orlando Bloom, ‘The Cut’.Courtesy of TIFF
He has to lose about 30 pounds in a week to “make weight,” a.k.a.
to qualify for the fight.
“My body was shutting down.
Orlando Bloom.Emma McIntyre/Getty
It was a very real experience…
I can’t compare it to anything.”
The actor adds that “it was actually more mentally than physically” difficult preparing to play the role.
I dropped like 10 pounds one night after doing [what] the nutritionist told me."
“And I’d been doing cardio, everything that the boxers [do].
I was like, ‘Wait, what is this?
How do you do this?'”
He laughs as he remembers the shock he felt that morning.
“It was wild.”
But he quickly adds a warning to anyone thinking of replicating his process to lose weight on their own.
“By the way, don’t try this at home,” he says.
I literally had somebody carrying me out of the bath.
I laid down in bed and I had to drink two liters.
I think it’s like the water goes back in to release everything.
It was like a science experiment.
It is a science."
I’m even considering!'"
Bloom says with a laugh.
“But it was more like we found this amazing prosthetic and things.”
The entire physical transformation ended up impacting Bloom’s performance in ways he didn’t expect.
“I was so calorie-depleted going into it and dehydrated,” he says.
But what it does to the psyche is way more interesting."
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And of course, Boxer is a boxer, therefore it’s okay?
“Somebody passed out in the screening, so that’s the shock value,” Bloom says.
“Apparently they came around in the ambulance and they were okay.
But it was like, ‘Wait, what?’
They were really into it.
They were really feeling it.
They were really going there, which I felt too, like PTSD.”
With additional reporting by Gerrad Hall.
