What was more fun, the sword fighting in Pirates or the archery in Lord of the Rings?
Bloom: You can’t really compare, because they’re so totally different things to play with. But I had a lot of fun with the sword. It was quite complicated. But I do some different stuff in Rings. It’s quite difficult to compare those two. Did you know immediately that you wanted to do the film? Bloom: Well, actually, it was a thing where I had finished working on Ned Kelly and Geoffrey was going on to do this, Geoffrey Rush, and he sort of brought it to my attention, as it were. And then basically, yeah, he sort of mentioned it to me. And I was like, “OK, it sounds like it could be a good project.” And I wanted to read it because of his recommendation. He just said there was a part that would be good for me. What was the most difficult aspect about the filming? Bloom: It was a lot of fun. Being on the ocean, I love being on the ocean, but the nature of that is that you’ve got a lot of people in a small space out in the middle of the sea, and some people don’t like being on the ocean. S
