Orlando Bloom thinks some people might have wanted to fight him while he was preparing to play a boxer in his new movie, The Cut.
“I was just exhausted, just mentally and physically,” the actor explained Wednesday on Britain’s This Morning show, “And I was just hangry. I was a horrible person to be around.”
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In all, Bloom dropped 52 pounds for the film about a retired boxer (named simply Boxer) making a comeback, which arrives in U.S. theaters Sept. 5.
To lose the weight, the actor, 48, said he took on a grueling diet. He subsisted on a diet of tuna and cucumber for the last three weeks of it, leaving him with “no energy or brain power.”
The Pirates of the Caribbean star previously said that he had consulted a nutritionist who had worked with the likes of Christian Bale, who took home an Oscar for his own turn as a boxer in 2010’s The Fighter.
“He had me on this really tight, strict regime and program for eating, and I was holding at about 163 pounds for what felt like weeks,” Bloom told Entertainment Weekly at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival last September. “And I’d been doing cardio, everything that the boxers [do]. Then I did this Epsom salt bath and he said drink two liters of water, go to bed, and I woke up in the morning and I was like 10 pounds lighter. I was like, ‘Wait, what is this? Osmosis? How do you do this?'”
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While it might sound like a miracle treatment, Bloom warned that others shouldn’t try what he did. The process left him in rough shape.
“I was so calorie-depleted going into it and dehydrated,” he said. “We went into the weigh-in and stuff at the end of the movie and I was hardly there, which is sort of perfect in some ways, but I’d be lying down between takes just to kind of conserve energy. And the dehydration. But what it does to the psyche is way more interesting.”
He described the training he put in for the thriller — which costars Caitriona Balfe as his concerned partner and John Turturro as his trainer — as “really challenging.”
Watch his full conversation with The Morning above.
