Orlando Bloom Says Playing This Film Character Went 'Against Everything' In His Being

The actor said he thinks he "blanked" the film out of his brain when asked about one of his lines.

Orlando Bloom struggled to remember one of his lines from the 2004 historical epic “Troy” only to admit that he didn’t want to do the film nor did he want to play the character Paris, Prince of Troy and Hector’s younger brother.

The actor, in a recent interview for Variety’s “Know Their Lines” series, was asked about his “Do you love me, brother? Will you protect me from any enemy?” line from a movie that also stars Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Diane Kruger and Brian Cox.

“I think I just blanked that movie out of my brain,” said Bloom of one of the highest grossing movies of 2004.

He later continued, “I didn’t want to do the movie, I didn’t want to play this character. The movie was great, it was Brad and it was Eric and it was Peter O’Toole. And I was like ‘How am I gonna play this character?’ It was completely against everything I felt in my being.”

He recalled one part of the script where Paris “crawls along the floor” having been beaten by someone before holding his brother’s leg.