Just hours after the news broke that Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr were splitting up after three years of marriage, Bloom, 36, made an appearance on Live With Kelly and Michael. He didn’t mention his break-up (the interview was pre-recorded from the previous day), but Bloom had plenty to say about other things, namely: kissing his Romeo and Juliet co-star Condola Rashad, living in New York City, reprising the role of Legolas for The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, and raising his two year-old son, Flynn.
“We sometimes get applause after our first kiss because it just goes on,”; Bloom said of the balcony scene he shares with Condola Rashad, the Tony-award winning daughter of Phylicia Rashad and football player Ahmad Rashad, in the Broadway revival of Romeo and Juliet. “Sometimes I’m like, I’m not letting go.”;
Bloom started the play this summer and will continue until January. “I feel so fortunate to be doing it,”; he said. “I mean, it’s a monster of a play, a wonderful play, but it was really one of those things where my mom was like so, so you decided to climb Everest on the first trip out the gate? That was her thinking, without oxygen.”;
One benefit of being in a Broadway play is living in what many regard as the greatest city on planet Earth. “I love when you walk out into the city and you feel like you’re part of the stream of life, you know what I mean?”; he said. “Some people are going up the stream, some are down stream, depending on the day, but we’re all in it together. And I love it. […] New Yorkers are super cool. I get the odd yo, Orlando, I love you movies.”;
The only drawback about living in New York is that nature doesn’t exactly flourish there. For a father trying to impart to his son an appreciation of the natural world, this presents a bit of a problem. Luckily, a quick drive upstate solves the problem pretty effectively. “I like to walk him in the country side, build camps. We were out upstate the other day and we found this, do you remember those helicopter things when you were kid, throw them up. Can you imagine his face for the first time seeing that? It was just perfect,”; Bloom said.
For Bloom fans who are unable to travel to New York to see Romeo and Juliet, don’t worry: You’ll have an opportunity to see plenty of Bloom in the upcoming The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug. “That was a character that was created 15 years ago,”; Bloom said of Legolas, the Lord of the Rings character that made him famous. “So when Pete [Jackson] called me up and we’re thinking we can bring him in, I was like, “Dude, I’ll do it.'”;
The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug opens on Dec. 13.
