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Orlando Bloom’s Behind-the-Scenes Stories from Lord of the Rings & Pirates
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Jun 19, 2025
From Lord of the Rings to Pirates of the Caribbean, Orlando Bloom has lived many lives on screen—but this Fan Expo Dallas Q&A panel gives fans a glimpse into the actor behind the roles. Bloom shares candid stories about getting cast as Legolas two days before drama school graduation, performing his own stunts, and nearly working with Christopher Nolan on a Batman project he ultimately walked away from. He opens up about the pressures of fame, the early days filming in New Zealand, bonding with the Fellowship (yes, the tattoo story is real!), his work with UNICEF, and his favorite props and pranks. It's funny, heartfelt, and a must-watch for fans of LOTR, Pirates, and Bloom himself. 📍 Recorded live at Fan Expo Dallas 2025 🎥 Watch more celebrity interviews and panels: Tales From The Collection YouTube Channel
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how's everybody doing yes indeed you guys have got to give me some energy because I got to tell you it's been a
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long day how's Van Expo treating you we got you you guys are awesome the real question
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is how Stan Expo treated you sir you are It's been great i have to say you know
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after all these years to come and see you guys you know up close and personal
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as it were and get to kind of like shake hands wave whatever sign and take photos
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is a really nice thing and hear the stories and see and feel the love you know it's been a minute it's so good to
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get to do this so thank you all for coming out and supporting this uh fan
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expo and the movies crazy time in the movie so it's nice to have people still
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enjoying the movies million% make some noise today y'all thank you
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i think along with everything we're here to celebrate like your epic career and every great epic starts with a wonderful
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beginning so how did the acting bug bite you um you know I was at school at a as a
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kid and I think you know I always struggled a little i had a I had a I had a I I was had a little dyslexia but I
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had I had a kind of high IQ which was very fortunate but I um I found myself
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very present on stage and I really was slightly terrified at times um stage
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fright wise but I really enjoyed um using my imagination in that way and
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uh and getting to step out into a character in a way and I always played
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the kind of uh the the characters i never really played the leading roles as
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a as a kid like I was like the sergeant of police in like the pirates and so
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like I was something like the old dirty old man which is very inappropriate in this day and age in um in the boyfriend
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which was a musical and I you know I was so so that was my um my thing and then I
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moved to London at 16 to kind of pursue my dreams of being an actor which included going to like the National
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Youth Theater and I got I got um somebody sort of scout hired me there and um an agent and I did some theater
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stuff and then got to drama school when I got into drama school I knew that's
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really I needed that kind of a training you know getting to um study the great
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works of you know Shakespeare or Bre or Czechov or even some of like the amazing
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poets that we would read and they really train you for the theater in the UK
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especially back then so when I got cast in Lord of the Rings I feel like I had a whole new education
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you know which involved you know learning how to perform in front of the
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camera which was super different for me um actually funny story the first time
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um I saw myself on film as it were we were doing a screen test um for
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Legololis and um I was uh paired with uh Liv Tyler Arwin and uh who you all know
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and and I had an outfit that we didn't end up using but it didn't occur to me that I should like be in that space
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being filmed like as the character which I've been prepping anyway i'd done all the movement and stuff so I was just
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like joking around on set with Liv and they they said "Do we want to watch you
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know the the the the screen test of what of what things look like?" And I remember looking at it going "Oh my word
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I'm going to get fired what am I doing?" I was like "This is bad." Because I was
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just like Orlando i wasn't in character but I was doing So that was like a very
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big kind of first uh wakeup call but um I kind of ship ship shaped myself pretty
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quick but I was I was like fresh off the boat from drama school and had all of
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that kind of um all those sort of tools if you like in my arsenal in terms of
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like physicality and vocal work and just that enthusiasm for life it was it was
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it was kind of a magical time i love that i think you got to give yourself a little bit more credit though like when you say fresh out of drama school like
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you had gotten this role what like 2 days after graduating is that true i actually found out two days before
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which was like wild um but I had you know as I said I'd had an agent so I'd
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met um on on some pretty interesting uh
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films notably I think I remember auditioning maybe six times for Mulan
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Rouge there was a point where they were going to do like an unknown cast for that of course they went with like a
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great cast with you know Euan who also went to my school actually and Nicole Kidman fantastic actors and um but I did
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have that kind of like moment of learning how to be in in in auditions
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and I had a lot of them um but I was never thinking about it cuz I was really focused at school and it was just like
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that was a real blessing so the first audition for Lord of the Rings I
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actually went in for Phamir okay and then um and then I remember it was the
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Hubbard's casting and I'd met them previously and they were really great supporters of mine thankfully and they
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they said "Well Peter and Fran are coming over they want you to go on tape for Legololis." And I was like "Okay."
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And then and then I met them uh for the first time um in London um at a funny
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little uh like chapel building I feel like upstairs just off Goo Street anyway
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it was um you know it was sort of went from there really that's kind of brilliant though to see how it all just
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kind of shaped itself you know like there's such a a huge opportunity with a with a huge movie like this that changed
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how movies were made and for you to find yourself so early in your career part of this it's got to be like you look back
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on it you go "Wow." Like what what fate what luck Yeah i had to Yeah i mean I
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still you know you know pinch myself at the thought in many ways i mean I I think um you know um it was it was you
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know timing in life is is so much of all of it right you you put yourself in the right position you you study you work
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you you know I was I was young to move to London I would say at 16 but I had a
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real like desire to to to be an actor and and I felt that you know being in
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London would be a good thing i did all of my further education in London and and drama school the guild hall was a a
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bachelor degree at the time as well which was great because the government paid the bill um which was cool um but
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it was a very um kind of uh Yeah it was a magical moment for me absolutely and
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and one that um you know he says jump when I say how high kind of thing you know like he's been he's you know I mean
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it was to go to New Zealand at that age as well and to see what they were doing there that was like
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you know I think it was a it was it was a very unique experience was sort of
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like a a giant independent movie of sorts you know everybody was an artist
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almost you know when I walked into the wetter workshop for the first time
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that's when I really got hit with what the enormity of what we were doing there
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were like 500 or more I might even say a thousand or
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plus like there was a warehouse you know full of Urukai outfits just hanging i'm
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sorry you said there was a warehouse somewhere of like a thousand Orakai outfits yeah the the the legit like
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latex all kind of you know that all these stunt guys and extras would get into um in all kinds of weather they
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were like heroes um sweating like crazy through it but yeah it was and I was
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like I remember just looking at it and thinking "Wow we're doing this this is crazy." Awesome that's awesome so yeah
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that's amazing now you said that you had you read playrs you read poems but were you a fan of Tolken before you got this
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role yeah i mean if you grew up in the UK you kind of went into that that uh
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that those books i I had read The Hobbit okay um do we have any Hobby fans in
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here okay okay i was a little quiet i was a little nervous yeah it's a great book to start with um if you got kids
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it's a great great way in and um and then yeah I I think I picked up The Lord
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of the Rings but I was you know maybe not the right age and got distracted but I obviously read the books prior to
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filming and a couple of times actually i remember I mean for everyone the books
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were like a Bible on set we would all you know we would all kind of walk around with our books and um at that
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time there wasn't really emails so I would I would I remember I would fax message Peter and Fran and I'd say well
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you know the at the council of Elron you know legalist is bringing really important information about Gollum you
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know so like uh are we including that and they're like it's okay Orlando we've
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got other ideas but you're going to have a great it was like one of those things where you know we were all I think we felt the
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weight of responsibility you um for
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lovers of the books and uh you know and what that meant um it was a it was yeah
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it was it was definitely I actually went to New Zealand 3 months prior to filming okay i was one of the first actors there
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actually i think even maybe the first and it was like
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I was just drilled it was like I rode maybe 50 horses or more cuz you know the
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idea is you become a rider not a passenger and I did all these stunts on horses bare back and not holding rains
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and stuff which it was really fun and then um and Pete was always up for us doing all our own stunts by the way
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there was no like there was no like no stunk guys no no Orlando can do that you can do that right okay so um yeah um
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yeah I did get tossed off the horse one time the hobbits used to take the Mickey out of me cuz I complain about breaking
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a rib but they were always taking the Mickey out of the elf cuz he was too pristine looking but um but uh yeah it
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was it was everything was filmed you know we would I had movement training
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where I remember I was working with this like martial arts guy who taught me um
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the the the kind of samurai movement cuz a lot of what he you know they wanted to
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define the elves right physicalitywise and uh there was a movie called seven
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samurai which is a kurissau movie that I was watching and brilliant movie and then actually I got called to set this
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was a cool story um I don't know I don't know what's going on cuz I'm so tired But my brain is kicking in so if I'm
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rambling I It's all right but um but I remember being called to set because
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they had um all of the elves walking through a forest and they were all um
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you know extras as it were and and they were like "Well we want the elves to move the way Orlando moves so can
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Orlando come to set and show them how to move?" It was like I was like "Okay." Um
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you know because part of it is I always felt like Legololis being from Merkwood he was like a little militant
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elf you know like like an assassin militant hardcore you know I didn't want
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him to be like you know like I wanted him to have like a kind of you know
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fighting spirit that's kind of what I took from the books and stuff so yeah a little warrior elf sort of thing so it
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was it was um it was but it was you know to be that age and to have you know that
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kind of thing laid up an archery like you know I had I started you know firing
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it like they had like a a a bear a rubber bear and a and a I don't know
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like a goat and a deer and stuff it was like just like out in a field and I would like have to like run and fire at
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them and by the end of it they gave me my bow for the movie which was really just a piece of it was metal with a with
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a um like a a a frame around it that was not wood it was like rubber of sorts
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rubberized sort of material so that it would it would load the part and and be used and I was like they would weight
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paper plates throw them up and I'd like spin and fire the paper plates out of the sky it was I got pretty good with
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that thing cuz it's not like a legit like bobo like one of the ones that you use for target practice it's like it's
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like so it was cool to to to do those sorts of things and and be in that pocket i had a Yeah and then and then
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you know we we famously we were all like I was with the Hobbits a lot of the time and we were all trying to figure out
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what we would do in our free time right i wanted us to ride motorbikes and that was like a big no no i think Billy Boy
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was like "No no we're not riding motorbikes no one wants to die." I was like "Mountain bikes no." Um so we all
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learned to surf which was the other thing and we had like sort of surf trips up to like uh Castle Rock and rent a
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little batch on the beach house and like was just like a tiny little thing and
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cook up food and surf and it was a pretty magical time honestly I love the fellowship that you guys created that's
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absolutely amazing that's fantastic all right so we got to move into Pirates of the Caribbean where you traded Come on
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now oh okay well I was wasting all my time on Lord of the Rings no never waste never waste all right but obviously you
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trade in your your bow and arrow for a brilliant sword and I got to know who was your favorite person to spar against
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in that series you know it was Bob bob was the this amazing swordmaster um who
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taught me embarrassingly not remember his last name but he was um you'll have to
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forgive me but Bob was um this remarkable I think he taught Errol Flynn
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this is he was an older gentleman who like literally taught Errol Flynn how to and my son's name is Flynn by the way
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come on now so um like I um he he was he was like
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and I had a stunt double you know who was who was fantastic Mark who I I'd
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sort of like practice with and then of course you know those scenes with Johnny
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I'd get to to work with that legend and you know having grown up watching Johnny
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Depp perform it was like you know it's like kind of like unbelievable you know
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um so yeah in amongst all of them you know it was it was it was a pretty
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pretty dope that is pretty awesome was there ever a moment where you might have uh I don't know outsore fighted Johnny
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might have accidentally stabbed him you got a little nervous you can tell us we're going to save space the thing about Johnny was that I remember when I
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read the script for the first time and I was like it kind of read like Will was quite this heroic you know kind of young
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piratey kind of character and and and Johnny was like also like this this like
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heroicish but like but what but then what he did he just came in and as
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you've all seen Captain Jack he just completely blew it out of the waters so a lot of what I was doing with Johnny
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was just trying to figure out how to like how to act opposite his his like
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his Captain Jack and it was sort of it was it was it was it was it was made
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easier because of what he was doing but it was also like kind of like like it
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was like trying to figure out how to navigate what was a little intimidating like trying to not so much tint
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intimidating because Johnny's a really really good human and and great kind of
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guy so and very like cool to work with but it was it was like it was I guess I
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was intimidated because I was young and I was a fan of Johnny Depp but I was I was also just like trying to figure out
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what my path was and I I used to come to set with ideas and Gore was would be like "Yeah but you do what you do you
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know Kira does this and he does that and that's what works." And I was like "Okay yeah I couldn't." But um but the moment
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where I like in I can't remember which movie where I kind of uh do that impression of him i was like I gotta get
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like I was on I remember being on a plane with Jerry Brockheim with the producer and uh I pitched him this idea
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because I was like wouldn't it be cool if Wills just like takes a mic out of him for a moment cuz he's so serious the
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whole time in the movie he's like earnest as hell which is another thing to do in some ways but um but it was
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like and and so that was that was a a cool memory getting to kind of um do that for a moment but uh yeah it was it
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was the first movie you know it was um it was you know I mean it was I don't
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think there'd been a very successful pirate movie in a long time i got a call about that movie when I was
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in Australia working with Jeffrey Rush at the time and and an amazing actor who
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some of you might remember Heath Ledger tragically passed yeah yeah amazing
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amazing man and uh Heath was we were doing this movie Ned Kelly and I was Joe
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Burn to his his Ned Kelly and Heath was you know just amazing but I remember
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speaking to Jeffrey and this call came in about um and I was like it was like a
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brooding Australian kind of boys in the you know outback movie and I was like a
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pirate movie after this doesn't seem to make sense why would I do that and I remember Jeffrey to this day would be
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like "You still owe me 10%." Because he was like "You need to do this movie it'd be great in it." And I was like "Okay."
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And then I think somewhere in that moment Johnny signed up and I was just
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like "Yeah." I mean just to be on set and see watch you know one of my icons
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and idols doing what he does you know was like an honor so you're telling me that somewhere in the dark multiverse
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there's a universe where you did not take this role there's been a couple of those but yeah
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I mean that was there was a point where I was like wait does this make sense like I said pirate movie on based on a
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Disney ride didn't seem to be like like the thing you know at that moment but I
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you know but obviously I remember having dinner in London with Kira and the director Gore and you know it was like
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oh okay this is and they were you know and it was it was yeah it was it was a
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magical moment and uh yeah thankfully I I did say yes well thank you for saying yes i think we
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all appreciate that one uh I got to live in this one like right so you said there were a couple of of
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roles that you did take i mean obviously Lord of the Rings huge franchise pirates huge franchise is there one that you did
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not take that we we didn't know about um I don't I wasn't offered this movie
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particularly but um and I but but I did sit down with Christopher Nolan on
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Batman what and uh Yeah I know guys i know um
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and I was I just finished um this movie yeah I just finished all these movies
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and I was I was actually just you know in The Hobbit they talk about a piece of toast that's you know filboy talks about
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a piece of toast spread a little thin i was like that i just didn't know up from down and and and I sat down with with
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Christopher Nolan who I you know remain one of his biggest fans of course said
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and I and he said "Yeah I think we could probably do this you know Orlando." And I was like it was they were these and I
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and he had this script called the keys to the street which he'd written and cuz he'd done Momento and all of his work is
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amazing and that's I was like well Chris could we talk about keys to the street and he was like
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doing Batman um he was he was amazingly he's such a remarkable man and gentleman
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um and I I remember I drove away from that meeting and I called him and I said "I feel like you know I'm like I said
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Chris I'm so sorry i'm just not able to be like I just need to find my life i
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need to I need to get out of life kind of thing." You know what I mean cuz like it was it was it was a it was a crazy
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ride I was on and doing another big trilogy i felt like I just I didn't know which I think I could have dropped off
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the face and um and then uh and he said "Well don't worry i think we're gonna be in this business for a long time but I'm
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yet to work with Chris Nolan again come on maybe I'll get to him one day he's he is
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a legend." So but yeah I that was I mean and again it wasn't like he I was being offered the movie but I was in this
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moment you know where the heat and the you know there's always this there's always a thing for you know age heat and
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and timing and and I and I do sometimes think well I wonder if I had really
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pursued that and done the screen test or whatever I would have had to do to if that would have gone my way but um but
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it was I mean look Christian Bale I mean I mean he did he did okay destroyed that
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he did okay orlando Bloom is Batman no no I'm just saying i'm just saying come
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on he was y'all know y'all would like that y'all know y'all like that but um but yeah he was Anyway yeah and those
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movies still you know and he in those movies by the way let's have a round of applause for Absolutely absolutely i
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don't think there's ever been a character like the Joker since or will be i don't know you know I mean he really
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he brought it he brought it blessing we have a little bit of a game here we have two games but we're going to start off
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with this first one uh this is called pirate elf or other you have to figure out who said it was it a pirate an elf
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or other who said it okay here we go they're taking the hobbits to Eisenard
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that's a pirate right how easy is it to take you just going to start you off i start yeah yeah i like
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it the elf obviously absolutely i've signed that about a million times on Legless today by the way so
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all right we're still getting into it okay we're going to start get a little challenging here we go i make a point of avoiding familiarity with pirates
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will pirate yes yes will that good job you would die before
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your stroke fell oh well that's that's that's leggy isn't it that is that is
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good job to the dwarf a short one time to go what was it time to go time to go oh
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that's pirates isn't it on the beach good job good job yeah yeah a red sun
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rises blood has been spilled this night i love that line that is such a good line that is such a good line i mean
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Philipper Buoyance and Fran Walsh really knew how to write for those movies i
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mean they really poets um yeah legalist good job i'm afraid of watching you sail
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away and knowing you'll never come back
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oh is that is that that other Sword and Sandal movie
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yes good job paris okay we've got I can't believe I
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remember that this is That was a good one this is either madness or brilliance
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that's That's Will under the boat isn't it under that canoe thing which I always thought was quite funny actually like
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would that actually work did any Does anyone else think that Didn't they do one of those like science shows where
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they're like "Yeah this this doesn't work this doesn't mean I hate this." Bad idea the stars are veiled something
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stirs in the east a sleepless malice ley yes yes i keep my promises i intend to
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free my father i hope you're here to see it that must be Will good job good job what
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man is a man who does not make the world better
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um that's neither of them isn't it that's um What man is a man who does not
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make the world better bailey yes kingdom of you know your stuff that's what I'm
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talking about that was That was a That was a That was crazy that was like my first leading role for Ridley Scott huh
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absolutely yeah oh thank you well the if the director's cut had come out at that time I think the movie if any of you
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ever watched watch that movie I hope you watched the director's cut cuz it was
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even though it was longer it felt shorter because of the how it was put together it's interesting with movies
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when that happens but yeah last one no cause is lost if there is but one fool
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left to figure it out no cause is lost as far as Will left the
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figure it must be Will good job good job make some noise y'all not bad for this tired old brain
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he's on fire he's on fire all right so we got a couple of presubmitted questions from fans here um this one is
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uh from Jamie from Fort Worth hopefully Jamie's in the room hey Jamie are you here jamie jamie here if your name is
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Jamie you can claim it yeah your name is Jamie there it is well this is a fake thing by the way they're just asking
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questions that's the giveaway this This is new Jamie this is new Jamie uh says "Hi Mr bloom i love Legololis how did
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you learn to shoot a bow and arrow so perfectly?" And now I'm going to add on to that when was the last time you shot one um
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interesting i like I said in the beginning I I did all of this training with the bow and arrow i think the thing
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that looks so cool because Pete has this very childlike
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approach in in the best way and you know he just he would like he would he would
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mimic what we'd have to do be like you're just you're just you know and he had this
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whole like in his in his direction which is was so beautiful and endearing
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watching him direct i mean he's like he's playing every character basically he was like a fan of the book and every
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character in it so um I think yeah like a lot of the the glory of Legolas's bow
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work is is down to some of the excellence of the guys behind the scene in the dark in the you know in the with
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the computer gener which at the time by the way was like super new i mean they didn't have you know they were they were
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they were breaking boundaries in terms of to how they were doing that stuff which it I remember sitting actually
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watching these movies and going it was like it was like it was like Christmas came all at once having made them and
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then getting to see like there was a like the way that like these things I
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were doing and like I'd have to just you know do the movement and pull it but I'd be like you know so that it looked and
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then they'd paint everything in but I remember seeing the I forget which movie
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where it was the same time I was like I fell and broke my rib but I had to run I was
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like standing on the ground and they had me like standing and the horse came running through running to me i had two
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horses on that movie one was Tex and the other one oh sorry buddy I've forgotten
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the other one's name well the thing I loved about Tex and what I remember is cuz he was like he could ride through
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anything like you know um but I would stand there and then and I just had to
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leap and then in the movie I like literally swing around the neck and land on the horse in the coolest way i was
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like it was it was stuff like that that you didn't know what it was going to look like it was like in the Bog scene
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you know it's like like you're like there's this green ball and I'm like well Pete is it going to look really
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it's going to look scary okay you know cuz you're like you know trying to trying to get the level of what your
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performance is going to be for like when you're looking at a blue at a at a green ball but the the really cool thing about
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that those movies and and Action Pirates too is that you know I think in some of the other movies that are made today
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you're just in a warehouse like this with a blue screen right and or you know and there are some things in place but
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we were like on sets sets that were built sets that had like everything around us and felt so you really felt
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you like you were in Bayon's tomb or truly immersed yeah immersive that's awesome the ball rock is still scary to
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this day so yes that's great work uh this one's from Pria Pria wants to know uh you've worked with some legendary
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directors like Peter Jackson Ridley Scott how did their directing styles differ and how did you adapt your
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process to each Yeah i mean you know directors are like
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artists right i think like Ridley Ridley is an artist in fact he's a
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painter um he he paints beautifully by the way like amazing canvases um but he
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uses the camera like brushes and he's painting this thing in front of him and it and it really felt like you know
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that's what was happening and and and and you know but all of these directors
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that I was you know so blessed to work with had the same effect I think on
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cruise where like really could be on set in the desert where we were doing either
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Blackhawk or or or Kingdom of Heaven but like he he'd see like the sun was setting and we'd be on
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this set and he'd be like "Okay we want to get everybody over there in the next 15 minutes before the sun sets." And
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I've never seen a crew move so fast like everybody's just picking up gear and running and grabbing stuff everyone's
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just like to get it done you know and it's like he inspires people and Peter's the same i mean Peter inspired a whole
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you know generation the whole country you know in fact I mean New Zealand just supported that whole movie i don't think
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you could have made that movie without the support of the people of New Zealand you know and and every and all the artists that were involved and then you
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know Gore was like this you know Gore was just this like punk rock like animal i mean he just like had these crazy
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thoughts and ideas you know that's how you know those movies had that real sort
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of punk rock feel to him i I feel um you know um Wolf Gang was like this German
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you know and he had this you know he was very like you know very dramatic it's
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going to be there's going to be thousands of horses coming over the head thousand you know like it was all like
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bigger more more you know and I always really overplaying this but okay
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but um it works it's it kind of Yeah so I think you know all of those and and
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and there are so you know there's I've worked with great directors there's so many um so yeah but um yeah each each
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director has their own approach you know um and uh yeah it's it's a it's a big
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job so great i love it tyler M from Tulsa Oklahoma says "My dad and I watch
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Pirates uh of the Caribbean every summer what was the funniest prank that happened on set if the statute of
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limitations allow you to tell us?" The funniest from Pirates yes
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i mean you can go Lord of the Rings too if you wanted to no no i mean um
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that's a good one well I mean look Johnny just like was
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just funny so I mean there's nothing like every everything he did was funny in many ways just building that
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character out i will tell a funny story about being on uh Lord of the Rings though we were at the Rivendell
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this was funny and scary and weird we were on we were at Rivendell and I
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remember um I think I was there with a girlfriend at the time and we cuz it was we were at this like wine region which
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was where we were filming not was it Riven no Loth Laurian with um Kate Blanched right do I mean Loth Laurian
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yeah anyway where I get given my bow by that and we were all staying in this
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hotel and I remember I'd gone to bed and everyone was downstairs having a good time and there was like this like
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banging at the door first time like you like like literally thumping the door like crazy and my girlfriend was like
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sorry I'm just I was like I have no idea I don't know what's coming and I and can I open the door I'm not opening that
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door it's crazy someone's going crazy and it was like VGO like thumping the door like crazy and he literally like
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picked me up and carried me down to this bar like the elf has to be like I can't
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they were like like like just wanted to like serve me up in some way I don't know I was I was always like I was I was
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the like I was like the the prim you know don't get a cut don't get any blood he was always taking the Mickey cuz he'd
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walk around with like no shoes on and go to bed with his sword and sleep with his horse and all sorts of stuff and I'd be
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like I'd be like you know I mean I was convinced i was so lucky to
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to just you know work with VGO cuz like he was really probably the most
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influential like person on the way cuz he was he was he was method but not like
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method he was just like like committed so like people talk about method today and obviously it's there's a whole thing
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about it but like you know I think he was just like 100% committed and and there was something so beautiful about
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that and and getting to sort of but he would also you know take the Mickey and rip me a new one all the time just like
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but um but uh yeah and I sat you know with next to him on the on the on the makeup bus and he was yeah he's an
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artist as well by the way i mean outside of being a poet and an artist he had a makeup mirror and he would stick all
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these pictures up you know and and by the end of this by the end of the the movie this giant mirror in front of him
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was just gone and it was just like but it was all of these like it was like a layered tapestry or or you know of and
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he I think he gave it to his makeup artist actually which was such a beautiful thing um that he just built up
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cuz we had Polaroids back then and we'd like stick them That's awesome yeah it was it was pretty
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cool i love that i love that uh this one's from Sarah sarah wants to know "Looking back into your journey from a
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breakthrough role in Lord of the Rings to becoming a household name what has been the most unexpected aspect of fame
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and how have you navigated it?" That's a big question uh yeah um I learned to
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ride a motorcycle um uh like I'd always ridden motorcycles as
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a kid but I got my license in the UK which was smart cuz it's a lot harder to get your license there than it is in
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America which was I thought safer although I did have one accident but um but not too bad but it's bad enough to
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teach me a lesson but like I think like I nobody really prepares you for you know it was a different time i guess
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it's probably harder for people i don't know the social media now i don't know whether having social media makes it better or worse but like I remember it
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just it was just very difficult to do anything because there were like always cars outside my house people waving and
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stuff like that and like on you know Yeah it was it was pretty wild i mean
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yeah Kingdom of Heaven I they they had to get like it was I had to get like a
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personal kind of security person it was just a wild time and we were in Spain and they were like I remember they
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were like I was on the phone to another girlfriend at the time and they were like there were these girls screaming
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outside the window like it was like she was like what is that i said well it's just these girls screaming outside the
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window um and you know that got like it got pretty pretty wild there for a minute
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and and it and I think it just you know you're not really nobody there's nobody
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teaches you how to navigate that stuff you know you just kind of I got very good at wearing a baseball cap and
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trying to hide and try and like operate but but you know it was you know like I
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used to have I want to I used to want to make a t-shirt say real life science to get me back on the movie you know cuz it
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was like But um I think yeah I think yeah probably just the aspects of being
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very visible um through some years that you're also developing as a human as a
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man or trying to be um was something that you know was unexpected because you
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know it's it's it's not it's not it's like a bit of a human experiment in a way you know what I mean you handled
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those formative years though with the plume so thank you very much for the example that you set um through all the
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things that you went through so absolutely thank you yes make some noise for that for sure it was not easy not
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easy unusual in that regard um we've got a question from uh Aiden wants to know "What advice
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would you give to someone who wants to follow in your footsteps?" Wow
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in this day and age um I think
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um you got to you got to if you have a dream you got to really you got to nurture it and and you got to believe in
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it um I think that education is is just so important uh for everyone
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and and it's and and it's not you know it's like we because of you know I mean look my my daughter is going to grow up
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in a world where there's super intelligence right so it's like everybody's now got the answers to everything in their life at the on their
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phones um but you know there's there's there's something to be said for reading books and and studying and and educating
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yourself make that noise you know putting the time in and and dedicating yourself to a craft or you
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know I think in this day and age you got to like you got to be good at just about anything and everything if you're going
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to compete because there's just so many people doing it but I think commitment dedication
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work ethic um not being overly distracted finding time to you know um build your
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inner life and your inner world um so that you're interesting because you know
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um hopefully you know it's I think it's it's what's going on the inside that it starts to reveal to you know the camera
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sees everything right um and it's if your inner world is developed in a way that is interesting that people kind of
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uh I think um engaged in what you're doing but if you're like if your inner life is just scrolling or I don't know
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just not not engaged then then you know it's so it's cultivating your
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imagination and dedicating yourself to you know the craft of of what this is
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and and I think you know that's you know can you sing can you dance can you can
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you take care of yourself and can you you know can you do all of the things or you know martial art I don't know it's
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like there's a whole bunch of things movement And but um but the it's like this is an instrument at the end of the
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day in a way the body and you know if you if you take care of your instrument your instrument will take care of you
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and you know and you want to use it in different ways and you're going to play different songs and different things that you do so it's just working on that
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I suppose elvin wisdom right there i love that make some noise y'all
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this next one is from Megan and I really want to put some emphasis on this one if you could take one prop from either Lord
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of the Rings or pirate sets what would it be and why and I really want to emphasize take it like not that they
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gave you permission to have it but you're just going to be like "No this is mine now." What would it be
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maybe my wig definitely have a lot of fun
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i mean yeah I never got my I got like I've got my I got you know I've got my
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bow and quiver and arrows and stuff which is really cool and I got my sword from Kingdom and Troy and got a bunch of
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cool stuff um but I didn't get my wig and I think it was like the wig and the eyes were pretty unique and you know the
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ears I got somewhere you know but like they Yeah it was fine yeah but um Yeah I
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don't know maybe my wig um Yeah yeah I like that that's a good answer that's a solid answer
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amara says "You've been involved with UNICEF for many years how has your work as an actor influenced your humanitarian
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efforts and vice versa?" I think if you've got empathy as an actor then you're you you're able to
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empathize with a character then you're able to be you know you try to be you know you've got to empathize even with
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the bad parts of a character that you're playing because sometimes you're trying to be a character that's not necessarily a character that you would want to be in
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real life but you know um so empathy and I think you know I I I I still feel so
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fortunate that you know um I was approached by UNICEF cuz it is a sort of
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selfish act of giving in a way cuz I get to go to you know these remarkable
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places around the world to see the work that they do firsthand to literally save the lives of women and children in in in
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desperate circumstances and that that in itself is just a great gift because it gives you perspective because you know
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again you can you can travel which broadens the horizons but when you see the plight of people you know we live
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we're here and you guys are very fortunate to have you know come and been able to afford and thank you for signing
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up and taking autographs and doing all of it but you know it's like it's you if you if you were born in another part of
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the world you know you may never have that opportunity so it's um I think empathy and and and then you know I mean
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that that organization is you know I'd encourage anyone to support because it's it is they I've seen it firsthand many
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times they've really they really do the work um on the ground to just um support
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you know communities women children that just you know whether it's you know
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psychosmatic care cuz they're dealing with you know um war trauma or you know
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just getting them water because there's nothing in sight you know um it's it's it's an amazing thing to be able to do
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that gives you perspective you know with all due respect to Batman you're a hero in real life so I think that matters so
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much more to that role so thank you very very much for that one absolutely
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one more question uh and then we're going to end up with a game uh this one is from Carlos uh and bringing up VGO is
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perfect is it true that you and VGO uh got matching tattoos with the other Fellowship actors and do you have any
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regrets about that no yeah we got them actually yeah we did i was I always wanted to get a tattoo
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and I think uh I sort of I sort of suggested it when we were in I was in a
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makeup chair and VGO like jumped on the idea and sort of we all got like nine in
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Elvish mine's there that's awesome on my on my my draw arm um yeah we all got
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this little nine nine for um for the nine of the fellowship i think John was
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the only one reluctant but his his son Double Brett who was who was amazing actually who I did most of my work with
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i mean John came in to do remarkable close-up work but his what had to happen for his face was a lot it was like but
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um yeah so we all got those tattoos and then actually the producers and and and
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Pete and stuff after I think it was after the release of the third movie maybe
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we all got them to do 10 as like honorary members of like the 10th
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members of it you know cuz like Maradeski was a producer Pete and different and Barry Osborne there was a
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bunch of like key players in the in the in in in the in production as producers
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and who got like 10 as well which is I don't know it was cool the fellowship grows man that's awesome that's awesome
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all right so we're going to wrap this up with a quick game of this or that i'm going to throw two things at you you tell me which one you are more inclined
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to go with are you ready here we go legololis half ponytail or Will Turner
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bandana which one did you say legless half ponytail half
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ponytail the half with the halfborn tail but he's still got the long hair which one would you do that one or the band
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this is This is personal uh what am I doing with this am I actually
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living with this or saying this is what he'd look like yeah this is you on a regular basis you have to go to the grocery store oh I see i see the bandana
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bro okay okay all right so I like it um best drinking buddies
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hobbits or pirates oh well that's a really hard one mhm i mean pirates
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really I mean Johnny really good red wine i do get some really good red wine from Johnny
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uh so I'd have to probably say that although I there's nobody there's nobody more fun than the hobbits for it
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okay all right hobbits it is i like it swashbuckling sword fight are battling orcs
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what do you guys think [Applause]
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yeah the orcs are pretty cool aren't they it's pretty awesome all right but the swash buckling works too so I mean
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it's pretty good what if you could swash vocal against orcs yeah exactly there you go that would be a mashup wouldn't
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it if you do like a a Pyrus Lord of the Rings thing oh my god lords of the
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Caribbean let's go best treasure the one ring or Aztec gold
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i mean the one ring is so terrifying isn't it you kind of got to take it just so that nobody else destroys the planet
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um but Aztec gold will get you a lot of booty
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that's what you're after in life power or money seems like most people are after both right you have to choose uh
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best place to vacation Middle Earth or Island of Morta middle Earth me
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that's a good choice middle Earth it's a good choice good choice he's like I'm just thinking about it i stretch a little bit that's That's Well look
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middle Earth yeah okay all right all right immortality or invisibility
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i think invisibility really i mean I don't know that I want to live forever i mean you know it's like I don't know but
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we want to see the world's going crazy guy i mean you know I want to live long
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and healthy for as long as possible so I can raise my kids with that you know what I mean but like
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like I want to be I want to enjoy my Twilight years cuz I'm in good health but like if you're invisible you could
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just like you know you could fix things cuz you could be in situations where you could hear what's not supposed to and
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then solve solutions right i don't know so it's invisible all right all right at
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least you're still trying to like be helpful you're not like a criminal i like that second breakfast or vitality
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drink vitality okay all right all right now this is the last one this is a big one if you could rule over one would it
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be the seven seas or the elven kingdoms
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mhm mhm
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well the olden kingdoms are fantasies aren't they that's true the seven seas feel like that'd be fun right absolutely
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uh but I'd like to live in a fantasy i'm going to go with the Elvin the Elvin King
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[Applause] dallas make some noise for Mr orlando one more time orlando thank you for
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joining us tonight we thoroughly appreciate it guys grab some pictures right quick right now snap snap snap
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